As hinted, WD TV Live Streaming Media Player (Gen 3) is the version with Netflix support. The current WDTV Media Player product hardware is practically identical (just no LIVE on the front panel) but software is different - Netflix is one of the features removed.
The device does not have the Netflix copy protection chip in it so never can have Netflix capability. Ther are inexpensive ways to get Netflix on your TV. A Chromecast on TV controlled by a phone or tablet with the Netflix app can do the job.
The Roku was the original Netflix player and the first. one was primarily a Netflix player . I have had the first three players and have stayed with the last one,Roku 2 since the newer ones had no great features I needed. Roku was first and best player and the WDTV was not a good UI and never use it for Netflix,used just as a media player.
Cold boot time is also as much as three or four minutes and even warm boots are sometimes a minute long. Leaving the device running often results in low memory errors or videos stuttering or failing to play. Now about half of my MKVs which used to play smoothly no longer play at all.
I still have email from WD support on my WDTV Live unit. It explains how to activate Miricast which I did and as promised a large number of otherwise unseen apps showed up to the right of the screen. But; the promised NETFLIX app was not included.
There is also an instruction of loading an additional app through the USB device. This would mean access to Netflix app in a folder so it will install properly. I see one on Amazon which is perfect set up for Miricast etc. Even Kobo Books has an app for Netflix.
Because the apps are set up for immediate install we need to get it in a folder and open the folder on the USB stick. Or, a more civil thing would be for WD to undo the roll back and put the Netflix into a current update.
I have a Netflix account and I have peeked under the hood at its video player running inside Google Chrome. Netflix calls its video player "Cadmium" and the javascript exposes all the functions and event handlers you might expect, such as play, stop, pause, mute, etc. I'm building a little Chrome extension that would enable me to call these Cadmium player function, but the hard part for me is figuring out how to create an instance of the player so I can start calling. The javascript is large, complex, and somewhat obscure. Once I can create an instance of that player, I'm thinking that making calls into the functions will be easy.
In Chrome dev tools I can set a breakpoint inside that block, and execution hits the breakpoint when I click the Mute button on the netflix video player. The Netflix js is (unsurprisingly) heavily obfuscated via method renaming. I tried stepping through the code in the debugger and ended down a hundred rabbit holes, never able to find my way to the top of the stack, so that I could make that same call (at top of stack) to simulate the user clicking the mute button. I also tried the approach of programmatically clicking the mute button on the UI player, which would meet my needs equally well, but they have serious defensive mechanisms in there, spinning me like a top.
Since there are over 100K lines of javascript, and I'm uncertain which chunks exactly would be relevant for this post, I would like to suggest that you load Netflix in Chrome, open dev tools, play a movie, and inspect the pause or mute button. Interacting with those video player controls takes you into the maze of javascript which I'm trying to see how I can tap into to control aspects of the player programmatically (just from dev tools is fine for now). Another important thing I need to figure out is how to query the video player to determine the current elapsed time of the playing video.
In this exemple the player will play the video at 10000ms.But you will need to inject the script directly in the html page, if you are making an extension using this in the content-script injected by manifest v3 (for my case) will not work.
While watching a netflix video on a Netflix site, my goal is to have a userscript invoke the playback controls programmatically. Specifically, the volume, level, play/pause state, and time position of the video.
I've been able to manipulate the html5 video element itself, but controlling that directly does not provide the needed netflix control bar feedback to the user. (i.e. video is paused, but the control bar still shows it as playing).
My approach thus far has been to try and locate the elements that represent the "buttons" you click when using the normal controls, and trigger their click events through the userscript. But I can't seem to isolate the proper elements. Additionally netflix is using a javascript compressor/obfuscator which increases the difficulty of finding the proper elements that represent the buttons on the control bar.
The console.log statements are showing some of the things I've found so far. But I haven't figured out how to invoke functions off them, or which of them might have what I'm looking for (I think largely due to the javascript compressor making it difficult for me to follow the code).
You can then use the API to perform various commands on the Netflix player, such as seeking (by using player.seek() with the number of milliseconds in the parentheses), playing or pausing the video (by using player.play() or player.pause() respectively), or controlling the volume (by using player.setVolume() with the value in the parentheses, with 1 being 100 percent and 0 being 0 percent).
So, for example, to get the "button" that controls play and pause, you could use: document.getElementsByClassName("player-control-button player-play-pause")[0]. Then to click it programmatically in tampermonkey, you simply invoke the click event using:
And I haven't figured out a way around that yet (though if your seek is just "fast forward" a bit, you could decrease the video size, set the playback rate to super high, then bring it back down to normal when it reaches the desired location I suppose).
So we need to find a different way to send the seek command. Apparently at one point there was a netflix.cadmium.objects.videoPlayer() or netflix.player javascript objects available with a seek method, however they appear to be absent now.
Since about a month ago, I've noticed that anything I watch on Netflix plays backat a higher frame rate, probably 48 or 60fps rather than the normal 24. This is very frustrsuspect it's my TV'sating and I don't like it.
I have checked all my Picture settings, turned off Motion flow, Reality Creation etc... but still, anything on Netflix plays back at unusually high frame rates. As I say this only happened recently, last month or so, befor that it all played back fine. So I suspect this has been since the last TV firmware update.
I think I have a similar problem on my KD55X8505C. I do not have a Netflix subscription but I have many videos that seems to play at maybe 1.5 times normal speed or so. Can some of you please try and play the sound and video test in the help section of the home screen and use a stop watch to check the duration. On my TV set the duration is 19 seconds. I can clearly see on some videos from both Internet sources and local sources that movement and voices are faster than normal. I have had the set for two weeks and it started yesterday while playing videos from the ARCHOS video player. Also animations in home screen seems faster than before.
That's not really the problem I'm having. My Netflix films don't playback faster, just the frame rate is higher. Interestingly, when I use Netflix through my Sony blu-ray player, the frame rate is normal. So I suspect what is happening is the Netflix app on my Bravia is automatically turning on and overriding the TV's Motion Flow or Reality Creation settings and I can't prevent this.
Yes then my problem is different. Sorry for barging in on your thread then. But I would still like if any one would time the duration of the video and sound test on other Bravia Android 4K TV sets. I am planning on calling support and would like some good arguments.
These are a community forum where we all basically help each other. Sony does not generally post on these forums. Unfortunately I do not know how to help you on this one, so if no other member of the community can assist, my advice is to contact Sony Support.
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