[mythtv-users] Netflix coming to MythTV native - no more wine/windows?

[Philip Nourse]

On 22/09/2014 2:39 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Stephen P. Villano 
> <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com <mailto:stephen.p.villano at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 9/20/14, 3:35 PM, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
>     > Can myth open a Chrome browser window as another type of
>     player?  Translate the standard up/down/left/right keystrokes?
>     >
>     > Maybe get real fancy and extract the show info, images, etc from
>     the raw HTML and create a myth'ed UI.
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>     <mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org>> on behalf of Thomas
>     Mashos <thomas at mashos.com <mailto:thomas at mashos.com>>
>     > Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 12:53 PM
>     > To: Myth TV Users List
>     > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Netflix coming to MythTV native - no
>     more   wine/windows?
>     >
>     > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Michelle Dupuis
>     <mdupuis at ocg.ca <mailto:mdupuis at ocg.ca>> wrote:
>     >> Ok, well it's coming to Linux natively anyways!!!
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/19/netflix-is-finally-coming-to-linux-without-the-need-for-hacky-tricks/
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Hopefully the devs are following this story.  I would love to
>     get my Netflix
>     >> through myth!!
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     > My understanding of it is that Netflix is coming to Chrome on linux,
>     > not particularly Linux in general.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Thomas Mashos
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>     It's possible. There is already a method of adding a wine
>     instances into
>     the menus to do something similar.
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> What would be particularly nice would be creating a plugin that would 
> parse the HTML on the netflix site and generate native mythtv menus 
> for the available netflix content.  Only opening fullscreen chrome 
> session for playback.
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Unfortunately, Netflix is closing down its API, and any attempt at 
parsing the HTML would only be met with frustration every time Netflix 
decides to make a change.
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