NetflixQ
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The NotOneBit.com NetflixQ uses Netflix.com's RSS feed and Macromedia Flash to display your Netflix queue (or other Netflix RSS feed) in real time on your website. The NetflixQ will automatically load your queue (or other Netflix RSS feed) from Netflix.com, and display the items in order, slowly fading from title to title.
Users can control the playback with the simple to use DVD style controls at the bottom of the NetflixQ.
An unobtrusive timer shows how much time remains to view the currently displayed title before it will progress to the next title in the list. Upon reaching the last DVD in the list, NetflixQ will begin with the first DVD and repeat until you leave the page.
To use the NotOneBit.com NetflixQ:
- Download the NetflixQ v1.1 zip file.
- Unzip the zip file and upload all files to a folder on your web site.
- Edit the $myQ variable in the parse.php file to match your Netflix queue
ID (found at
http://www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds?lnkctr=mfRSS)
Your id is the 35 character string that comes after the id (e.g. P2121212121212121212121212121212121 is the id for the queue of http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P2121212121212121212121212121212121) - Make sure the folder that contains these files can be written to by parse.php. A file named netflix.txt is created in this folder when the Flash movie is run.
- Your web server must be able to run the PHP functions fsockopen and readfile (with fopen wrappers enabled)
Note that multi-DVD sets may not display a DVD image. This is due to the way that Netflix stores its images.
NEW! The NetflixQ is now available as a widget for Yahoo! Widgets.
The Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.
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