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sl4ppy

2014-09-08, 04:15
I have airplay working fine from my iDevices to my PC XBMC.. YouTube, videos, music; it all works great.

Netflix on the other hand... no dice.

When I start playing a movie and enable AirPlay I get a dialog on my iPhone/iPad saying "Cannot Play Movie. Try Again Later"

Anyone have similar troubles or a fix?

Here's the log

Code:
21:12:40 T:13568  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
21:12:57 T:4304  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: nfhls://127.0.0.1/index.m3u8|User-Agent=AppleCoreMedia%2f1.0.0.8F455%20(AppleTV%3b%20U%3b%20CPU%20OS%204_3%20like%20Mac%20OS%20X%3b%20de_de)
21:12:57 T:4304 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:12:57 T:7296  NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
21:12:57 T:7296  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
21:12:57 T:7296 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(nfhls) in nfhls://127.0.0.1/index.m3u8|User-Agent=AppleCoreMedia%2f1.0.0.8F455%20(AppleTV%3b%20U%3b%20CPU%20OS%204_3%20like%20Mac%20OS%20X%3b%20de_de)
21:12:57 T:7296   ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [nfhls://127.0.0.1/index.m3u8|User-Agent=AppleCoreMedia%2f1.0.0.8F455%20(AppleTV%3b%20U%3b%20CPU%20OS%204_3%20like%20Mac%20OS%20X%3b%20de_de)]
21:12:57 T:7296  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
21:12:57 T:7296  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
21:12:57 T:4304  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
21:12:57 T:4304  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
21:12:57 T:4304  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
21:12:57 T:4304  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
21:12:57 T:4304  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
21:12:57 T:4304  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting

Ned Scott

2014-09-08, 05:12
This is a known limitation. Netflix doesn't stream video when it airplays, but instead just sends a Netflix-specific URL that requires an official Netflix client to playback.

sl4ppy

2014-09-08, 15:09
Doh..

Is there an easy path to having XBMC auto launch a Netflix browser or similar upon receiving that Netflix-specific URL?

Ned Scott

2014-09-09, 01:16
In theory that should be possible, but I haven't heard of anyone working that part out yet. Until then you can at least select and launch a browser window from within XBMC/Kodi using NetfliXBMC: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=178693

Of course, that would have to be done directly on XBMC rather than an iOS device trying to airplay it, but I thought I would mention it in case it helps at all.

sl4ppy

2014-09-09, 03:08
Gotcha..

Not quite what I was looking for as navigating NetFlix on an iDevice is so much easier than opening a browser, but at least now I have a project to work on. Smile

thanks!
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