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2011-08-28, 17:10
(This post was last modified: 2011-08-28, 17:12 by james194zt.)
This is an awesome way of doing it, impressed!! I did a quick hack myself that opened MCE to the right place but had to do the old back back back crap which dropped the WAF down massively. I ended up bastardising Media Centre and adding all my web stuff here and using Media Centre studio to remove everything except my MCE plugin/web stuff and making it look like a menu off XBMC but even then it was not as friendly as this!!
Quick question, could the exit command be something less common than "x" maybe CTRL+X instead or even better a small config file that lets you define your own exit button? just thinking that some people might have remote controls with keyboards on them (Boxee remote for example) last thing you want is the wife pressing x and it killing Netflix in the middle of a search!
Next thing I am going to try is remapping the XBMC main menu to X so that when the wife presses the main menu button on the remote (MCE remote in my case so the big green button) it quits Netflix and returns her where she started. Can't get much friendlier than that!
Thanks for the awesome hack, exactly what I was looking for!
James
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Thanks will give it a bash with the redefined key. One thing I did notice is that the exit doesn't always seem to work, sometimes I have to press x several times before Netflix/MCE finally exits.
I redefined the green button on my MCE remote to be the key "x" inside my environment and did the same to the shortcut on both XBMC and Mediaportal (by the way your plugin works great with MP using the Multishortcut plugin as well). When I press the green button on my remote I end up back to the home screens of both systems although I experience the same reliability issue with the x on my MCE remote as I do with the keyboard.
Thanks
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Rewrote key in script different. Though it seems James is the only one getting a bug??
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Accessing Netflix this way are you able to stream HD audio?
I currently use XBMCFlix and it works very well, however even when the content is marked as "HD" by netflix, the sound is never streamed in anything else but Stereo.
I am able to hear multichannel audio from other sources (Movies, TV Shows).
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Oh and BTW. For everyones information. I put all updates in the first post.. Heh.
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Tuxen,
I am having a hard time finding a pre-eden executor, any tips?