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1 replies. Latest Post by fullsailrick on March 5, 2009.
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secutanudu
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03-05-2009 7:42 AM |
I am writing about the new Netflix "Watch Instantly" player, which I understand uses MS Silverlight. As far as I know, the old player was using Windows Media Player as an engine.
Some background - I have an NVidia video card. It has a great feature which allows you to, if you have more than one monitor, designate one as the "Full screen video" monitor. Then any time you play a video, it shows up full screen on that designated monitor. In my case, this monitor happens to be my television. Also, the
This worked great, until I made the irreversible decision to upgrade to the Silverlight player on netflix. I am sorely disappointed I did this. I do not think the computer recognizes Silverlight as an actual media player. So my video card can not tell that is a video, hence the full-screen video function does not work. It also does not disable the screensaver while a movie is playing, like the old player did.
Please do something about this. Silverlight is a far better interface than the old Netflix player, aside from this terrible issue.
Thanks,
Andrew
fullsail...
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03-05-2009 3:24 PM |
Hi! Right now there are security considerations that should be taken into account before that is enabled. (Because Silverlight is also used for business applications, and there would be nothing to stop someone from tricking you into thinking that you were entering your credit card information into site A, while it is really site B. [All they would have to do would be to "go full screen" and create an environment where you could be confused into thinking you were seeing something legitimate.]) Here is a thread with some discussion about this issue.
Full screen video on second monitor