This doesn't always work with playing a DVD on a computer since
controls differ from application to application, but in a DVD player,
I've generally found that navigating the menus for episodes is more a
pain than an impossibility. For most discs that don't automatically
go to the next episode, Fox is one of the worst offenders on this
while Warner Brothers is one of the best generally making all of
their multititle DVDs go on to the next episode automatically, moving
to the next episode generally involves either the down or right arrow
on the remote and which one works to correctly navigate is consistent
throughout any given season or series set. For the PC, if you can
find the control that is the equivalent for the down and right arrows
on a DVD remote, it isn't too hard to learn the pattern for a given
set of discs.
A side note, I've been collecting Blu-ray movies for a little over
two years now, and I've noticed that studios seem to be going with
the disc authoring model that plays all episodes automatically. I've
collected TV seasons from most of the studios now and have yet to
encounter a single season set that does not play all episodes on a
disc automatically. I don't get much out of the high def video with
my remaining vision, but the lossless audio is very nice and I
appreciate the greater consistency on issues like playing all of the
episodes on a multititle disc.
Regards,
Chris
At 05:15 PM 3/7/2010, RicksPlace wrote:
Hi: I try to use WE with Netflix. The SilverLight viewer, that
is what comes up when you play something instantly on your
computer, is pretty much unusable as far as I can tell so far.
There are some buttons that will show up if you ReStart the page,
ctrl + F5 if I remember, but they are not labeled.There is a
graphic, likely a bunch of graphics, that will control volume and
other things but I have never found them with WE. My sighted friend
has used them for me. The DVDs have the index and other related
titles and chapters on them and they are also not very accessible
as far as I can tell. That said, I manage to get the things I want
to play instantly to work by playing say the first episode of a
series. Then that series appears on the Netflix page, I click it
and search for the next episode in the series and click play. You
can try right clicking the Media Player when you run a DVD. When
you are running an Instant video I do not have any answers. I am
not even sure a WindowEyes script would help since it is running in
the browser and I am not sure if Netflix is running an accessible
form of the Silverlight viewer. Perhaps one of the sighted folks at
GW will help you out with some suggestions, I could use them too! I
enjoy listening to movies and some TV Series but it can be a real
pain to try and use Netflix at times. If trying to play episodes on
a DVD I pretty much have to have sighted helpto get around the
titles and chapters.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Luv2Ride
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:44 PM
Subject: Netflix and WE
Does anyone use WE with netflix? or I should say does anyone use
their pc to listen to movies from netflix?
if so am I missing some settings that would make it work easier?
I can't get alt f4 or alt f to allow me to close the window after
the movie is done?
and according to netflix you should be able to pause a movie with
the spacbar and change volume with arrow keys but none of that is
working for me?
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