2011-04-30, 11:18
If your XBMC FLICKS isnt working and you find you have no %appdata%\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\plugin.video.xbmcflicks\userinfor.txt file, this might work for you. Its the same thing mentioned earlier but laid out completely step by step. In my case I was a moron and kept not seeing the Add-On settings option on XBMC FLICKS - so was unable to enable proper debugging.
Code:
1. Get nexflix working on your machine natively - this will ensure that you already have siverlight and anything else netflix might want to get working.
2. Turn on Plugin Debugging
Go to Videos / Add-Ons
Right Click XBMC Flicks
Select Add-On Settings
Under Debugging, turn on Both options
Back out to the Add-Ons menu
3. Start XBMC Flicks
At this point your bowser should kick off asking you the account to authorise for netflix usage - do so. If that doenst kick off, you can pull the url from the xbmc.log file in a line that looks like "Authorize user access here: https://api-user.netflix.com/..."
4. Get your 'key' and 'secret' values from the XBMC.LOG file
Open the debug log - %appdata%\XBMC\xbmc.log
Find the lines near the bottom mentioning the 'key' and 'secret' - you will need those values
5. Put your 'key' and 'secret' values into the iqueue.py file
Open %appdata%\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.xbmcflicks\resources\lib\iqueue.py
Note, windows notepad is not a good util for this, best getting something like Programmers File Editor (freeware)
Find the section of the file called MY_USER = {
Put in the key and secret (from the xbmc.log) between the ' ' for those values both by 'request' and 'access'
Notes:
A. IF you dont know what your %appdata% dir is, from a command prompt, simply type 'set appdata'
B. If your time is off, it won't work, so make sure your computers time is in sync with an NTP server
C. Try with a local administrator account if possible
Useful Commands: (once you have it working)
Pause / Plat - space OR enter
Full Screen - F
Exit Full Screen - ESC
Frame Mode - ctrl+spacebar (allows ffwd and rwd using arrow keys)
Rewind - shift + left arrow
Fast Forward - shift + right arrow
Menu - ctrl+alt+shift+m
Force Web Shutdown - alt+f4