Comments on: Netflix has never looked this good

By: eb1290

eb1290 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:47:00 +0000

My netfix app will not even open/ launch from the view my videos screen. I have reinstalled it and deleted it many times… Please help me. I have a netflix account but the damn app acts as if I am not pushing enter to launch it. All other apps work great! Please, please tell me what is going on…

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:08:02 +0000

Elan, thanks for a great program! When I access Netflix through Plex, the amount of available titles is much less than what is available through the Netflix Watch Instantly tab on the Netflix site. Any solutions to this?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:16:50 +0000

@sgarza I’m having the same issue with playing the “next episode” in a series. Anyone have a solution for this, preferably using only the Apple Remote?

By: sgarza

sgarza — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:48:18 +0000

Yes please single episodes

Also when an episode finsh it says play next episode, but the button is inside the netflix “red screen” cant pushit even with the mouse, and if i press fwd in my apple remote it freezes on getting episode information, well it doest freeze just stay on getting ep info but i can hear the audio.

I will try with “,”, “.” shortcuts and see what happens

By: elan

elan — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:13:01 +0000

@Jamie: we’re going to be improving the TV section shortly and have single episodes instead of the whole season, so it’ll be much easier.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:18:11 +0000

Is there a way to rewind to the beginning of a TV Episode. For instance If I watch episode 3 of 30 Rock, and I want to rewind to the beginning of episode 3. I can’t seem to find a way to do this.

By: will

will — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:54:02 +0000

Just started using Plex and love it – Have dropped cable and am very happy about it – Just one question though – when I try use the NetFlix app it only shows the NetFlix Preferences choices (Username/Password). I have a NetFlix account and have put that info into Plex, but can never get to the screen for the movies. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Panchiron

Panchiron — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:56:43 +0000

Elan, I wish you gave foreigners an alternative to Hotspot Shield for accessing to Netflix, Hulu and so on from outside US. Hotspot is so slow…

Sure that´s easy for you

Thank you for this amazing software.

Greetings.

By: elan

elan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:25:58 +0000

@jon: Is fixed in the next version, out shortly.

By: jon

jon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:21:20 +0000

Seems to truncate my instant view list after around 20-30ish items. I have 90 in there right now.

By: Video Master

Video Master — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:51:22 +0000

Can somebody make a Netflix streamer that supports PPC architecture or one that works on PS3? My $2,200 Dual 2.0 G5 is only 3 years old and can’t play Netflix movies. Thanks Microsoft !! (Silvershit)

By: donmannig

donmannig — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:56:31 +0000

I have been using Plex on my mac mini for the last 2 weeks and love it. Adding the Netflix app makes your media center program a deal closer for me to drop cable tv. Great job.

By: dailydisco

dailydisco — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:32:04 +0000

Works on mine… love it! Best thing ever! I am one step closer to canceling cable and just keeping an internet connection…

By: elan

elan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:31:31 +0000

@Ben: I’d check the forums to see if anyone is having similar problems, I know a few threads have sprung up as there seem to be a few people having issues. Not to worry, though, we’ll figure it out

By: Ben Voldman

Ben Voldman — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:28:33 +0000

It sits stuck at “opening stream”. I have silverlight installed and restarted the computer but nothing…. hulu works fine so i know my internet connect isn’t the problem. help:-(

By: mpconnick

mpconnick — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:11:23 +0000

Great work! I’ve been splitting my time between Plex and Boxee, mostly because Boxee already had Netflix. Now I can stick to one media center application and am quite excited about this.

One issue and two requests:

1 – My instant queue only displays 25 movies in the list although I have well over 100 in my queue. Boxee shows 102 in my queue.

2 – Please add the ability to remove titles from the Netflix queue. This feature is in Boxee and it makes queue management a bit easier.

3 – Boxee also has a My Recommendations menu that I sometimes find helpful.

There are other differences, but this is a great start and the three listed above are most important to me.

Thanks for the great work!

By: Spectre

Spectre — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:39:22 +0000

OUTSTANDING. You guys seriously kick arse. I got my MacMini for my birthday a week or so ago and first thing I did was install Plex. Having Hulu and now Netflix on there…OMFG sweet.

By: Hilbe

Hilbe — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:36:33 +0000

Anyone else stuck at “signing in”. When playing a queue item back? It worked this afternoon but isn’t working now…

By: Mike Beecham

Mike Beecham — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:45:57 +0000

I cant use Netflix, but I want to say VERY well done to you all who worked to bring this to the Plex community. Especially mad props to Scott who worked a LOT of hours to get this down.

As always, I give my family much love and am so blessed to be part of a team that works as tirelessly as it does to provide what is, let’s face it, the best damn media center out there.

Peace!

By: Willpower4u

Willpower4u — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:43:35 +0000

I can not believe this is a free program. Thank you for creating Plex.

By: Jernomer

Jernomer — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:43:24 +0000

Just to answer many people’s questions…

1) You must be a paid Neflix subscriber to use their streaming service.

2) And, unfortunately, only US residents can join Netflix.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:27:30 +0000

Thanks for another awesome update!

By: jetlagged

jetlagged — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:44:26 +0000

Okay, what am I doing wrong?

When I enter the Netflix menu all I can see is “Netflix preferences”. I have already specified my e-mail and password, and verified that Silverlight is installed and up-to-date.

Netflix works fine in my browser as well as Boxee. But in Plex, it simply doesn’t show any options other than “Netflix preferences”.

By: therandomstuff

therandomstuff — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:26:06 +0000

This is awesome! I just signed up for netflix.

By: phullup

phullup — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:24:41 +0000

Does the streaming part of Netflix work in the UK yet?
Been to their website but cannot find any info.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:27:48 +0000

Does anyone know if HD is working? I tried shows that I know stream in HD on my xbox360 like the office but they arent coming in HD for me.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:10:44 +0000

I may just have to reactivate my Netflix account now! Awesome work, as usual!

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:47:52 +0000

With boxee if you exited while playing a netflix movie it would not let you play another until the original finished playing. Apparently netflix says this is a problem with 3rd party apps usually. i.e. if you start a movie and plex crashes, can you resume the movie or do you have to wait 90 minutes or however much playtime is left? I suppose I could get around this by increasing my plan.

By: turboss

turboss — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:26:33 +0000

Is Netflix available in Germany?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:10:59 +0000

@elan: Hey man thanks alot for pointing that out for me. I feel like such a nub! Thanks for making the best media center app ever!