[mythtv-users] XBox/Netflix control

[Pat Pierce]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Bryan Frye <bryanfrye at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok so maybe this isn't completely about mythtv, but it's related.
>
> M$ released an update to the Xbox 360 dashboard today that includes the
> ability to stream Netflix movies.  I'm watching one now and it works great.
> It connect via the external inputs on my PVR150 and the audio/video all flow
> through the computer to the TV.  Also for those of us with standard sized
> (4:3) HDTV doing it this way allows you to adjust the screen size without
> the letterboxes along the side.  Xbox doesn't allow this.
>
> Anyways... I was curious if anyone out there was able to control their Xbox
> with a non-xbox remote using the IR blaster.  If this were possible, you
> could at the very least, switch inputs to the 360, then start up the netflix
> app and watch your netflix movies that way.
>
> A little more advanced would be to find out if you can send commands to the
> xbox that would play a specific movie in your watch now queue.  That way,
> from the netflix app, you could view your instant queue and hit a new play
> button within mythflix, then (maybe from a configuration screen within
> netflix that allows you select a netflix device) it will automatically
> switch the inputs to that device (in my case the 360).
>
> Sounds feasable in my head at least.
>
> Anyone have any experience in sending commands or controlling a 360
> remotely?
>
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Instead, what about making the mythflix plugin able to play the
movie directly, maybe by emulating what the xbox360 does?

Speaking of mythflix, my mythflix shows my netflix queue just
fine, but if I try to move a movie to the top of the queue or delete
a movie from the queue, it crashes my mythfrontend. any ideas?
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