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To start, I found an (admittedly old) post from someone at Netflix stating that their licensing requirements prohibited them from providing ways to control the player externally (everything needed to be wrapped up in a netflix-branded application, and providing ways to interact with the player externally would allow you to embed the netflix player in places it shouldn't go.) You can find that reply here (although it's four years old, I'd imagine not much has changed.)

I tried snooping around on the 'watch instantly' page myself, and there are objects like netflix.SilverLight and netflix.SilverLight.MoviePlayer (which has a getPlugin() method that returns some details about the plugin, and hookable events, but no methods for control,) but they mostly have to do with exposing the size of the player viewport, among other things necessary to place it on the page. I couldn't really find anything in any of the objects that suggested they interacted with the movie player that would seem to allow me access to it.

I also snagged the player binaries, and snooping through them I've found a ScriptInterface object internally with [ScriptableMember]-decorated methods in it called PlayMovie(), StopMovie(), ShowCurtain(), HideCurtain().

Then, I noticed there's another namespace in the player binaries called Netflix.Silverlight.CBPApp.HostedPlayer, which has its own interface - HostedPlayerScriptInterface. This has everything you want in it - data on play position, controls for increasing and decreasing play speed, pausing, playing, setting the play position, querying play state, etc. All of these are decorated as [ScriptableMember]s.

Now I break your heart - it looks like (for whatever reason) this interface is not exposed as a [ScriptableType], which to my understanding is a requirement for being able to access it from javascript. In fact, the only things that seem to be exposed this way are events that the player fires. My guess is that this code is for integrating with other partners, or left over from someone they inherited the original code for the video player from, but it seems intentionally that this [ScriptableType] parameter is left out. There may be a way to request a binary that's built to be 'Hosted', though I'm not sure what that means, and I also suspect it will be transparently obvious to the people watching what you're trying to do and have a stop put to it quickly.

Sorry for the long-winded response that ends in disappointment, but it appears as of right now there's not really a way to do this. I've seen some suggestions that basically amount to sending keystrokes to the browser window that emulate the keyboard controls, but this clearly isn't what you're looking for, so I'm going to go with 'no' as an answer here. :)

So, looks like you need to trick the Netflix player into thinking it's running in hosted player mode. There's some configuration options that can be passed in, but I'm not sure how, specifically, you would do that. It looks like that's all set up on player initialization - maybe some sort of bookmarklet could reload the page and inject a change? Or maybe just reload the player and change the settings.

Bear in mind I haven't done much of this javascript interop stuff so much of this is inferred from the documentation, but it does seem as if there is a javascript control API in there, it's just a matter of tricking the player into working in Hosted mode.

Going to have to stop here, but hopefully this gives you a good start. I've dumped the contents of that hosted player Javascript API file so you can see the methods that will be exposed once you manage to get the player in Hosted mode.

In Silverlight for a method to be exposed to JavaScript directly, it needs attributes [ScriptableType] on its class and [ScriptableMember] on itself. You could try opening up the XAP file for the Netflix player, disassembling the main assembly, and searching for any methods with [ScriptableMember] attached to them. This may not turn up anything useful at all, but it is something you can try nonetheless.

VLC, a cross-platform media player, is well-compatible with the high-resolution playback of regular media files of most mainstream formats. Moreover, this powerful player also supports online video streaming from popular platforms like YouTube. However, it is a pity that VLC has not yet been compatible with Netflix streaming video playback.

To make it possible to play Netflix through VLC, you are required to convert the streaming videos from Netflix to MP4, decrypt the encryption on them, and then watch Netflix videos offline with VLC player. This blog will guide you through the details on how to play Netflix videos on VLC Media Player in original quality with ease. Let's check it now.

To enable Netflix video playback on VLC Media Player, the most essential process to make it work is to decrypt the protection applied to Netflix videos and convert them to regular video files that are compatible with VLC. Here, you will require help from a professional Netflix video downloader, MovPilot.

MovPilot Netflix Video Downloader empowers the powerful functionality to rip Netflix videos to MP4/MKV, with the best HD 1080p resolution preserved and maintaining the original video streaming experience offline. With the embedded search feature, users can browse and access Netflix video resources simply by typing in keywords.

Meanwhile, MovPilot Netflix Video Downloader allows users to select language for preserving the original audio tracks and subtitles as desired. Hence, users can grasp the 100% original experience after downloading Netflix videos to MP4 for streaming in VLC Media Player.

Launch MovPilot Netflix Video Downloader. You are required to log in to the downloader via your personal Netflix account. After that, you are able to enter the main interface and directly use the search feature to browse the Netflix videos you desire to download for streaming through VLC Media Player.

Before processing the video download, you are able to hit the gear icon on the upper-right corner to enter "Settings" for customizing the video parameters (format and codec), audio/subtitle languages, and subtitle type based on your requirements.

Once the settings are completed, simply by hitting the provided download icon for each Netflix video result, then MovPilot Netflix Video Downloader will process to download the selected videos for you. Check the downloading progress to track the download condition at any time you desire.

When MovPilot Netflix Video Downloader completes the video download, you are able to access the downloaded MP4 Netflix video in the "History" section. Hit the 'open file' folder and you can check the downloads. Then, simply open VLC Media Player, then drag and drop it to VLC and you can enjoy the video offline on VLC.

Whether you are able to change the subtitle languages for streaming downloaded Netflix video on VLC depends on if you have selected to download the video with multiple language options using MovPilot Netflix Video Downloader.

When you have selected more than one language, and customize the downloading subtitle types as "Embedded subtitles" or "Independent subtitles", you are able to select language for the subtitle in VLC by navigating to "Subtitle" > "Sub Track" on the menu bar.

Likewise, when you have selected to download multiple audio tracks with different languages while processing the Netflix video download in MovPilot Netflix Video Downloader, you are able to select your preferred language option under "Audio" > "Audio Track" while playing it through VLC Media Player.

When VLC Media Player fails to support Netflix video streaming directly, you are required to download Netflix to MP4 and decrypt the protection from the videos using MovPilot Netflix Video Downloader in advance. This powerful video downloader is able to preserve the original language and video quality to deliver the best streaming experience for you to watch Netflix videos offline. With an intuitive design, it also enables everyone to grasp the usage with ease. Now, why not give it a try?

While the ability to control playback speed has real value from an accessibility and usability perspective, mostly I was just sharing something which brings me a ton of value because I thought others might find it useful.

This is important, particularly because not everybody wants to upload videos to YouTube or Vimeo and then embed them in their pages. The embed methods present accessibility challenges, so many sites choose to self-host and use one of many third-party players, most of which have even more accessibility challenges (with some exceptions).

Thankfully, the three browsers I checked on my Windows machine have support for captioning. The biggest hurdle is handled there. They do not yet support additional concurrent audio tracks to provide described audio, but then neither do most third-party players.

Same deal with Edge. If you can get to the context menu in Edge, then you can choose to play a video in a few different speeds: 0.5, 1.5, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0 (I think that last one is plaid). It is missing the 1.25 speed you see in Firefox, but has a 4 and 8 option. I also have no idea when this was introduced, but I tested this in Edge 40.

By appending parameters to the IFrame URL, you can customize the playback experience in your application. For example, you can automatically play videos using the autoplay parameter or cause a video to play repeatedly using the loop parameter. You can also use the enablejsapi parameter to enable the player to be controlled via the IFrame Player API.

You can use any of the following methods to embed a YouTube player in your application and specify player parameters. Note that the instructions below demonstrate how to embed a player that loads a single video. The following section explains how to configure your player to load a playlist or a user's uploaded videos.

Define an tag in your application in which the src URL specifies the content that the player will load as well as any other player parameters you want to set. The tag's height and width parameters specify the dimensions of the player.

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