I just watched ten minutes of a movie over 3G. I don't know how much is held in the buffer, but in those ten minutes I received 32 MB and sent less than one. That extrapolates to about 295 MB for 90 minutes.
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How to: Netflix on Your iPhone...not perfect but it works :)
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I just watched ten minutes of a movie over 3G. I don't know how much is held in the buffer, but in those ten minutes I received 32 MB and sent less than one. That extrapolates to about 295 MB for 90 minutes.
Wow, this worked on my iPhone 4 =) Thanks! But now instead of safari opening up after exiting the Netflix movie, the App Store opened and redirected me to the Netflix iPad app download, which said it wasn't available for iPhone. No biggie at all, at least I won't have to use Perfect Broswer. Thanks!
Yeah I thought it was weird too, but I went on to another movie and it didn't do that anymore, went back to Safari like you said.
Netflix through Safari works fine if you install User Agent Faker and input this string: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10
I had to reboot the phone once however before it actually worked for me. Before rebooting the user agent didn't change even after I inputted the new one.
I had to reboot the phone once however before it actually worked for me. Before rebooting the user agent didn't change even after I inputted the new one.
Epic.
EDIT: Whats the name of PerfectBrowser in the iPhone? Cant find it to replace the icon... (ssh)
EDIT: Whats the name of PerfectBrowser in the iPhone? Cant find it to replace the icon... (ssh)
You don't need Perfect Browser. Just use User Agent Faker to change your user agent string. Then it'll work in Safari.
Thanks for the confirmation. And the reboot was listed in step 10 of my instructions.
Oh whoops, I somehow overlooked your post. Didn't mean to unnecessarily repeat information, sorry.
On my ps3, netflix adjusts the video quality based upon the speed of your connection. I would assume it does the same in the iPad app, but I'm not sure.
Yes, they said in the keynote that it would. Something about Apple's "adaptive bitrate technology" or some such. It's not the Netflix app that actually plays the video, though, it's QuickTime; pretty sure that Netflix.app just handles the DRM.
Looks like I have something to play with tomorrow. Going to try Latin's step by step and get this going. Of course, it will pale in comparison to Netflix on my iPad. But that's hardly the point
Got it to work on my iPhone 4. Now I'm trying it on my friends 3GS its not working. I have tried both methods. I think the problem is with the Netflix app. When I play a video, the Netflix app opens but closes immediatley after and the video doesnt load. On my iPhone4, the netflix app opens then the video loads in quicktime. I have gone through each method twice with no success. Any advice? Oh, and the 3GS is 4.0, does it need to be 4.0.1.