netflix beachballs / player window obscures update notices

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
i click on understudy, added netflix, selected a movie in front row.

What is the expected output or result?
the movie should play

What do you see instead?
netflix window appears says its either contacting server or checking
my bandwidth it just gets stuck and i get a beachball and i have to reboot

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i use the latest snowleopard

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by misterk...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:05

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There have been a couple similar reports that later cleared up. Is this still a 
problem for 
you?

Original comment by kirk.kel...@rochester.edu on 30 Jan 2010 at 5:22

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let me try it again later.

after i posted this message. i tried to play it in safari without using front 
row
and i noticed a update required box for microsoft silverlight. after i started 
to 
download that, the netflix player worked. maybe the way that the netflix player 
seems 
to be 'on top' is preventing a background task, like a software update from 
being 
noticed. and it gets stuck.

Original comment by misterk...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2010 at 9:22

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when you play netflix with front row, its pretty much 'on top' of all other 
tasks until 
it closes. so a background task or message could of made it seem to get stuck, 
thats 
what i am trying to say

Original comment by misterk...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2010 at 9:24

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That certainly makes sense. It will be a little tricky because we definitely 
want the player 
on top of everything else. I'll have to see if there is a reasonable way to 
detect the other 
window's presence.

Thanks for reporting this.

Original comment by kirk.kel...@rochester.edu on 30 Jan 2010 at 10:55

• Changed title: netflix beachballs / player window obscures update notices
• Changed state: Accepted

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Had same issue, proved to be an issue with version of silverlight.  It'd be 
nice that there was an alert in Front Row stating that I needed to update, but 
this is a free app, so I will not harp to loud.  

I should also note that my next level of confusion is that I am not using 
Safari as a primary browser so there was that gap to solve there as well.  

Original comment by dale.sa...@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2010 at 9:20

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Bulk reassignment of open understudy issues that were owned by the wrong 
account.

Original comment by kirk.kel...@0x4b.net on 2 Jan 2012 at 12:05