Confirm that Netflix plays well?

[xgen]

Can anyone confirm that Netflix streaming works well in the 1/8/09 "CES" release of Boxee? -thanks

[marcel]

i tested it before and it was working..

[PHermas]

Yep it's much better than the previous build, no more stuttering for me.

[agentlame]

tested it last weekend with one of the pre-releases... smooth as butter on a macbook pro.

[cmolway]

tried it when I got home tonight. night and day difference over the last build. Sees to work just fine on my mac mini.

my biggest complaint is the BBC iplayer that just sits there taunting me. I wish BBC would have a subscription-based modle for us non-brits (BBC america suck a$$).

[agentlame]

my biggest complaint is the BBC iplayer that just sits there taunting me. I wish BBC would have a subscription-based modle for us non-brits (BBC america suck a$$).

me too. :(

i guess it's only fair, for all the content that can't be accessed in the uk.

[patron2mvuama]

tested it last weekend with one of the pre-releases... smooth as butter on a macbook pro.

is this work also on apple tv, if yes how to get the netflix plug in on appletv to show on the menu? thanks

[agentlame]

is this work also on apple tv, if yes how to get the netflix plug in on appletv to show on the menu? thanks

netflix is not available on the atv.

[J-M]

Netflix is working well for me as well on Macbook Pro. :)

[rb6719]

MacMini 1.66
Just installed the latest update. Netflix isn't stuttering and TV Series are available. Image quality is par for Netflix (some are video is better than other). I have to admit that I'm impressed with Boxee's internet feed performance.

[jlslatton]

Macbook. Works much, much better. Thank you!

[epmiali]

While Netflix does work way better on my macbook pro it still doesn't work some of the time. Thought I'd log my experience here...hope it is of value.

I get the following consistently:
-Doesn't see everything in my queue (specifically it doesn't find "Jeremiah")

Inconsistently:
-Some movies and tv shows load and play while others:
-start to load but come up with an error (didn't write it down and couldn't reproduce it). Oddly the video loaded just fine the 2nd and 3rd times. First available episode of Magnum PI was the show.
- Immediately pops up a box that says "Movie playing failed. Netflix launch error" - Hellraiser was the movie and this came up every time.
-Boxee quits unexpectedly while trying to play a netflix video. Doesn't happen at the same time all the time, kinda random, but generally when attempting to play a video. I sent the crash report.

The Great News:
-It finds multiple tv episodes (from a single disc) and no longer shows a time of 00:00 for these shows. In addition I can actually play these shows whereas before I could only view the show info.
-Seems to be much snappier
-Loads and plays videos much more consistently
-No stutter and video looks great for my connection

[mattkapp]

Playback is much smoother. I just watched two eps of the Office Season 2 and there was zero stutter or buffering mid-show.

The image quality isn't quite as good as I get on my Xbox 360 but it is a huge improvement over the last build. Thanks guys!

Mac Mini 1.83 1GB of Ram

[J-M]

While watching a movie I got the good ol' "Your connection has slowed. Adjusting for smooth playback..." message and while it re-adjusted up to 100% it froze there and did nothing for a few minutes before I gave up on it.

Other than that and the volume controls everything seems pretty good with this release. The interface is phenominal btw. Love it Boxee team.

Update: I found there is a bug in the Netflix Browse Genre's listing, where trying to scroll down makes the whole list go crazy.

[macshome]

MacMini 1.66 with 1GB RAM on 802.11g wireless.

We put the kids to bed last night and fired up Jackass 2.5 on Netflix. Played without any issues at all. I'll play some more tonight and test pause and all other transport controls.

It did take two tries to get the account pairing to work.

[rokoff]

I'm having an issue with Netflix. Selecting "Genre" from the left menu causes the entire menu to shift up and out of the frame! Anyone familiar with this know of a fix? :confused: