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What'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
by rufo 18y ago
What'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.
- nickb 18y agoRead 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 and it's March of 2009.
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- RK 18y agoOne 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...
- thorax 18y agoI 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.
- mmc 18y agoI tried it the other day on my macbook pro (2.5Ghz), and it skipped several video frames every minute or so. The audio was fine, but the skipping was jarring and unwatchable. The previous player ran very well on a five year old Dell laptop.
- elidourado 18y agoI had the same problem in Safari, but watching in Firefox works fine. I think Safari has issues handling plugins generally. I also tested it briefly on Safari 4 and it seems to be better.