I don't like it because the video skips about every 5-10 seconds. The audio is fine. It's really annoying, especially if you're watching an action movie.
Hrmph.
Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
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Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
#12Has anyone hacked the streaming format? It seems like it should be possible.
Netflix on Tivo works well.
Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
#13What's wrong with the Silverlight player? Runs fine on my Mac, except for a strange interaction between it and the NVidia chipsets that causes it to tear video (apparently it doesn't happen on ATI-based Macs.) There's a workaround you can use with Firefox that fixes that, at any rate. Certainly seems to suck less CPU than Flash, which can peg both cores of my MacBook Pro just playing a YouTube video full-screen.
Read some of the comments. * Silverlight doesn't run on PPC Macs * lots of video quality issues: poor picture, blockiness * lots of audio syncing issues: audio is several seconds behind on many videos * can't revert back to the old player once you "upgrade" and most customers are saying that they were conned into "upgrading" by Netflix. Finally, this all started in November of 2008 and comments are still pouring in a…
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Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
#14The title is misleading because none of those problems cited (except lack of support for the .0001% of the population using a PPC Mac) have anything to do with Silverlight. I've seen perfectly good video in that format. The Olympics for example.
If they had the same problems with a Flash player, it wouldn't be news, nor would you have given it that linkbait title. I expect better from you nickb.
Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
#15What's wrong with the Silverlight player? Runs fine on my Mac, except for a strange interaction between it and the NVidia chipsets that causes it to tear video (apparently it doesn't happen on ATI-based Macs.) There's a workaround you can use with Firefox that fixes that, at any rate. Certainly seems to suck less CPU than Flash, which can peg both cores of my MacBook Pro just playing a YouTube video full-screen.
Read some of the comments. * Silverlight doesn't run on PPC Macs * lots of video quality issues: poor picture, blockiness * lots of audio syncing issues: audio is several seconds behind on many videos * can't revert back to the old player once you "upgrade" and most customers are saying that they were conned into "upgrading" by Netflix. Finally, this all started in November of 2008 and comments are still pouring in a…
One of the big frustrations for Linux users is that Netflix supports Linux based appliances, like Roku, but won't support streaming to Linux desktops.
I'm out of luck because I have a couple of Linux machines and a PPC Mac at home...
Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
#16Does anyone know why they decided to make it so people couldn't switch back to Flash? It seems to me that if they lifted this ridiculous restriction, all these people pissed at Netflix would be happy.
Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
#17Does anyone know why they decided to make it so people couldn't switch back to Flash? It seems to me that if they lifted this ridiculous restriction, all these people pissed at Netflix would be happy.
> back to flash?
Flash never was an option.
Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
#18Does anyone know why they used Silverlight?
They have a deal with Microsoft to stream to the XBox. I always assumed Microsoft "evangelized" Silverlight to them.
Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
#19What's wrong with the Silverlight player? Runs fine on my Mac, except for a strange interaction between it and the NVidia chipsets that causes it to tear video (apparently it doesn't happen on ATI-based Macs.) There's a workaround you can use with Firefox that fixes that, at any rate. Certainly seems to suck less CPU than Flash, which can peg both cores of my MacBook Pro just playing a YouTube video full-screen.
Read some of the comments. * Silverlight doesn't run on PPC Macs * lots of video quality issues: poor picture, blockiness * lots of audio syncing issues: audio is several seconds behind on many videos * can't revert back to the old player once you "upgrade" and most customers are saying that they were conned into "upgrading" by Netflix. Finally, this all started in November of 2008 and comments are still pouring in a…
I watch it daily on Mac (mini), never had any issue. Love it. I guess I should pour in my comments-- though they get them indirectly when I beam to people about how much I love Netflix streaming.
Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
#20I don't like it because the video skips about every 5-10 seconds. The audio is fine. It's really annoying, especially if you're watching an action movie. Hrmph.
I have this problem when I use Safari, even the new version of Safari, but it all works fine when I use Firefox.