Anyone know of one? Is it even possible?

I'm considering switching from Blockbuster back to NetFlix for their streaming. However, I don't want to watch movies on my laptop/desktop, I'd much prefer watching them on my 42" TV.

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That would be an awesome feature. I'm a netflix subscriber but I don't use the download service because it's not convenient but if I could play netflix movies inside XBMC I'd be in heaven.

hell i would subscribe to netflix just for this

Put me down for wanting this script!

i will pay $30 USD via paypal to the person who authors the Netflix streaming script !

and what do you do when you netflix account is put on a hold for suspected downloading?

Can you enlighten us some more, why would they suspect downloading? We just want to stream the movies just as if we were on the website.

I don't remember where I was reading it, but how I understood it was if they detected you trying to circumvent their DRM in anyway. That's why you have to download so many plugins and it only works in wmp.

This would be the holy grail for me. Netflix does not seem to be bothered about downloading lots of people are doing it without getting banned. In fact I've only ever heard of one person getting banned.

For $30 USD you can buy a license for PlayOn media player, which is currently the only uPnP media server software that is working on Hulu.com and netflix support. It's still in beta, but hulu support is being added in each release and it can already play some of the content on Hulu. You can add it to the video section in XBMC and watch stuffs.

Beta releases are free btw.

PlayOn enables consumers who own a PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, or HP MediaSmart TV to watch Internet video from sites including Hulu, CBS, YouTube, ESPN and more on their television. We have just released PlayOn Beta. Netflix support is just down the road, and the fully featured release will be coming shortly!

We will also be adding support for Nintendo Wii by the end of 2008. Stay tuned!





Sorry dude but no mention of Xbox 1

Well, this page says that PlayOn just makes your PC a DLNA server for Hulu, YouTube and soon Netflix. And this page says that XBMC supports DLNA quite well. I'm sure you can connect those dots yourself...

I've CONFIRMED NetFlix through PlayOn. It works. As long as you can watch them on your PC, PlayOn will allow you to stream into XBMC Xbox uPnP Share.

Check out my post:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=665557

MM

If you can stream to a Windows Vista/XP Media Center PC, couldn't you stream that to your xbox. Kinda like a "Media Center Extender"?

That uses uPnP too, doesn't seem like it would be prohibitively difficult to code, then again I'm not a coder.

Also, there'd be no way to tell what was happening. As in netflix would just see the PC watching the movies, not the xbox streaming from the PC.

Just wondering if that was plausible.

Even better than waiting for a Netflix plugin... Navi-X Media Browser will let you watch TV, movies, music, podcasts, youtube, flickr, shoutcast, rss text and pics!! Over a quarter millions hits a month with hundreds of users added daily. Check it out!! Available for XBMC on Xbox, Windows or Linux!

www.navi-x.org

How does this have ANYTHING to do with the Netflix plugin request, and how is it "even better"? Netflix currently gives customers a legal way to watch quality, full-length movies, including new releases. XBMC already does most of the things you're advertising that "Navi-X" does (--poorly, imo).

Sorry for the vent, but I see this particular ad post every time I search via Google for updates on the whole XBMC-Netflix plug-in progress.

Anyway, to my real suggestion/query: WHY is it that XBMC (on XBOX1) categorically "can not play any audio or video files protected/encrypted with DRM"? Is it a hardware limitation that translates directly over into a software limitation? Is it the fact that there's no open-source DRM development? And if we're limited to Netflix (+ Hulu, etc.) uPnP streaming via PlayOn's software, why is this? If it can be done with commercial software, certainly the same uPnP streaming can be accomplished by some savvy open source programming?

Another thought: I've read multiple times on posts over the years that DRM can "only" be decrypted successfully on a Windows or OS X machine. Who says? With the [confirmed?] rumors of Netflix (clearly "locked down" by DRM) coming to PS3 and Wii, isn't it obvious that it *SHOULD* be possible on XBMC (or Linux) for that matter?

I don't have the knowledge or patience [yet] for programming on the XBOX, but in my searching:

1) no one appears to have a real answer to WHY DRM can't be decrypted on there, just lots of people, either in a polite or bothered tone, saying "it cannot be done" or "do your searching!".
2) there are plenty of "netflix api"-this and "python"-that floating around, but mostly relating to Media Center "extenders" and use with the XBOX360 before it was a built-in feature -- can't these be tapped for info?
3) why isn't vmcNetFlix compatible with XBMC?
4) how come Boxee can do it?

Running XBMC on an XBOX is considered "illegal" and voids warranties and legal agreements all over the place. It made the impossible possible, and along the way, proprietary code was used successfully. What the hell are people afraid of to take a crack at live DRM decrypting streaming? I don't get it.

...an answer to "WHY???" over at xbmc.org/forum:



THANK YOU! You answered my question. One of those sad but true -- that's just the way it is -- things. ...but finally here's a concise, informed answer explaining WHY that might help others understand now. Thanks again.

if you don't want to fork over 30 bucks for playon. download tversity. free program that does pretty much the same thing. i use it for hulu and stuff. i haven't tried it with netflix though, im sure it would work though

I thought Tversity was free only for UPnP from your PC.
Last time I used it you needed to pay for a premium version that allowed for Hulu amd such. Is this no longer the case?