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

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 06:14:27 UTC 2014


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 24 Sep 2014, at 3:28 pm, "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> For my mind there is one question to be asked first - would the current developers be interested in someone putting together some browser code capable of displaying the Netflix page? Because if they say no then as far as I can tell it can't happen. We can work out the details (like whether we can legally do it) after that.
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>> Well myth does do addons/plugins doesn't it?
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> Yes, but I assume the only ones that end up in the plugin section are those sanctioned by the dev's.
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> I suspect that there are already some out there with 'unauthorised' third party mods for MythTV + Netflix that are probably quite neat but that wasn't the intent of my question.
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>> Or how about simply a button to shell out to chrome or firefox, and
>> some remote tweaking to control it?
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> This is probably the way to go in the short term.
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The other option is xbmc which does have a couple of addons for
netflix, although as a non netflix user I haven't tried them.


Makes a tolerable frontend these days too.


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