vmcPlayIt is an add-in for Vista Media Center which provides a front-end interface to the PlayOn digital media server software, supporting both Vista Media Center PCs and Extenders.  The PlayOn server software currently supports Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, CBS, CNN, ESPN, and more (http://www.playonplugins.com) ...

You can find more information about vmcPlayIt, it's requirements, and download the beta version at the following project page:

http://myweb.cableone.net/eluttmann04/projects/vmcPlayIt/default.htm

Feel free to use this forum to provide comments & feedback.

Woo Hoo !  Great job !
I did have a couple of questions though. Will we be able to run vmcnetflix and the vmcplayit side by side until all the bugs are worked out?
Do you have to use silver light to run vmc playit ?

Thanks again !


Edit- Links to downloads not working in firefox, works fine with IE

Couldn't wait :)

Installed and everything works fine on vista 64

I get the " Can not play video " error on the extender though. Receiving this error for all, netflix, Hulu, cbs, ect.

Still have vmcnetflix installed and that still works. Could this be a conflict?

Do we have full control with a remote?

I installed with no incident on Vista 32 as well. It all works great on the actual VMC machine but I too get the "File type not recognized and cannot play" message on the extender. (DMA2200) I do have the vmcNetflix plugin installed as well. I wonder if there's any way to get the thumbnails for Netflix properly sized instead of squashing them to 4:3 ratio.

mpjbell:

Do we have full control with a remote?

Yes on computer, but not able to test on extender

My question is will development on vmcNetFlix continue alongside vmcPlayIt or will vmcPlayIt take precedence. The dependency of vmcPlayIt on the ~$40 PlayOn server software is somewhat off-putting with respect to vmcNetFlix which has no such requirement.

I’m just hoping that vmcNetFlix doesn’t get lost in the shuffle.

YU77gG:

Woo Hoo !  Great job !
I did have a couple of questions though. Will we be able to run vmcnetflix and the vmcplayit side by side until all the bugs are worked out?
Do you have to use silver light to run vmc playit ?

Thanks again !


Edit- Links to downloads not working in firefox, works fine with IE

vmcNetFlix and vmcPlayIt are completely separate applications and should be able to run both w/o issue.

Silverlight is not a requirement for vmcPlayIt, but might be for PlayOn - not sure.

- EricL

YU77gG:

Couldn't wait :)

Installed and everything works fine on vista 64

I get the " Can not play video " error on the extender though. Receiving this error for all, netflix, Hulu, cbs, ect.

Still have vmcnetflix installed and that still works. Could this be a conflict?

vmcNetFlix should not be conflicting.

I was streaming to a xbox360 via the media center extender interface w/o issue when testing this ... is anyone able to verify this working (or not working) using the XBOX360 media extender?

- EricL

Is this supposed to work on extenders?

KGaines72:

I installed with no incident on Vista 32 as well. It all works great on the actual VMC machine but I too get the "File type not recognized and cannot play" message on the extender. (DMA2200) I do have the vmcNetflix plugin installed as well. I wonder if there's any way to get the thumbnails for Netflix properly sized instead of squashing them to 4:3 ratio.

I'll need to look at the extender issue ... wondering if it's having issue with the stream format. 

As for the thumbnails, that's an issue I plan to fix ... this was a quick fix since most of the other thumbnails are 4:3 in size.

- EricL

Tried to play a youtube vid on extender (same error) but the audio started playing back on my pc. 
I did not have MC open on the pc either.

Octavean:

My question is will development on vmcNetFlix continue alongside vmcPlayIt or will vmcPlayIt take precedence. The dependency of vmcPlayIt on the ~$40 PlayOn server software is somewhat off-putting with respect to vmcNetFlix which has no such requirement.

I’m just hoping that vmcNetFlix doesn’t get lost in the shuffle.

I plan to keep providing some limited support for vmcNetFlix to keep it running, but I'm not expecting to extend development any further than it already has.  It is open source ... I'd have no problem having some take the development lead on something.

- EricL

ejezuba:

Is this supposed to work on extenders?

Yes, I've had success using the XBOX360 media extender ... those with native extenders are reporting an issue with the format, it sounds like.

- EricL

YU77gG:

Tried to play a youtube vid on extender (same error) but the audio started playing back on my pc. 
I did not have MC open on the pc either.

I had that problem too ... that is also one of the issues reported on the PlayOn forums, so I don't think that is an issue specific to vmcPlayIt.  Try playing a CBS show - I didn't have issues with those.

- EricL