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Shalun
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Tuxen,
I love your hulu and netflix solutions. Went to them due to addons breaking.
I have ran into an oddity, recently, with snetflix.exe--older and newest as of Aug 25th, I think, from this thread, when running from xbmc using executor or advanced launcher. snetflix.exe works fine when launching from cmd or mouse.
Windows title: MediaCenterWebLauncher.exe - application failure
Error: the application was unable to start correctly (0x000007b)
I tested with 10.1 and 8/31 nightly with the same results. Suggestions? I am willing to admit it may be on my end.
Also, any chance of a sboxee.exe? Killing myself trying to launch it.
Respectfully,
Shalun
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Tuxen you are correct and after an embarrassing amount of time trying to determine root cause, I just formatted my box, I am back up and running.
The problem persisted even after an uninstall and deletion of xbmc's program and appdata directory. Very frustrating but there must be information stored elsewhere. I have a clonezilla image to recover if I have repeat.
Thank you for your guidance.
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2011-09-08, 21:59
Maybe this should be also be posted in the "Plugin/Script (Python) Addons Help and Support" to get more exposure, not sure if it's technically a Plugin/Script, but... ??
Regardless, I REALLY like this solution. I'm semi new to all this, and it was a breeze.
I initially used the "official" XBMC Flicks plugin; I really liked how Netflix was integrated with the XBMC skin, but it was a little less reliable for me -and frustrating to get the remote to work, start in full screen and get back into XBMC. All in all, XBMC Flicks is a great project, please keep it up!
However, for now, this solution by tuxen works better for me. My Harmony remote worked without so much as a single tweak!!! And while the WMC Netflix interface isn't XBMC, but it's still quite nice and easy to use. And it got me playing around with WMC, it's pretty nice. I like those sports scores in WMC...
Anyway, as noted by other users, I noticed the Window's desktop when the script switched between XBMC and the WMC Netflix plugin, but my super-simple work around was clearing the desktop of icons, setting a black background and a nice XBMC splash screen as the desktop, and auto-hiding the taskbar. Maybe not perfect, but it works for me. Slick enough!
So, thanks again!!!
I'm looking forward to trying your Hulu work around when I have some time!