Netflix won't stay fullscreen

Not sure if DDG is only a search engine or not. I have a desktop icon for all of them. When I open DDG it opens and looks the same as the other 3. But that's a subject for another Thread.
I have a Netflix icon on my desktop. When I want to watch streaming I just click on the icon and choose my movie The movie is played on wiPlayer I did not download or install wiPlayer. It came with Netflix. When I watch a DVD I use WMP, but if I choose to, I can use RP or WA.
Ok, I just googled wiPlayer & of all the images I saw, I 'm showing this one http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss175/carusom71/Error.jpg
You might try what it says,I dunno. I'll conrtinue looking.
I just now found this,too http://forums.silverlight.net/t/55198.aspx/4/10
 
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I have GC FF IE, and DUCK DUCK GO or DDG (Because I like the name) Those are browsers. Right? Sometimes I get browsers and search engines confused. I don't have a clue as to which browser Netflix uses. Or if it uses any. Is there a way I can find out?

Right click on the Netflix icon on your desktop and select properties. Do you see an URL or the name of some executable & the URL? For the former, the default browser opens up when you double-click on the icon. And you can press Alt to bring up the menu and select Help. You should see "About Firefox" or "About Internet Explorer". Chrome is a bit different. Click on the wrench icon, then you'll see "About Google Chrome".


Desktop.I've been streaming Netflix for a long time now. Only started having the problem 4 or 5 days ago. Oh. I played an actual DVD I got from Netflix today. Screen did the same thing.

Do you recall if some program/device driver got updated before this problem?
 
Rabbit01 I double clicked the icon and found that netflix opens up in Google Chrome. Right clicked it went to properties and found the URL http:/movies.netflix.com/WiHome?Inkctr=mhwn The I could be a capital I I or a lower case l L they are identical so I guess its either says Ink or it's an abbreviation for Link. is there a url rule of thumb for I or l ;0)

Almost forgot. What's my next step, and I don't see Alt anywhere.
Me again. It's one of those I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck kind of days.
Last question honest. If I wanted to change Netflix from GC to another browser. How would I do that?
 
Rabbit01 I double clicked the icon and found that netflix opens up in Google Chrome. Right clicked it went to properties and found the URL http:/movies.netflix.com/WiHome?Inkctr=mhwn The I could be a capital I I or a lower case l L they are identical so I guess its either says Ink or it's an abbreviation for Link. is there a url rule of thumb for I or l ;0)

Almost forgot. What's my next step, and I don't see Alt anywhere.
Me again. It's one of those I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck kind of days.
Last question honest. If I wanted to change Netflix from GC to another browser. How would I do that?
Evidently Google Chrome is your default browser. If you make another browser your default,it'll open up in it. They'll correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Rabbit01 I double clicked the icon and found that netflix opens up in Google Chrome. Right clicked it went to properties and found the URL http:/movies.netflix.com/WiHome?Inkctr=mhwn The I could be a capital I I or a lower case l L they are identical so I guess its either says Ink or it's an abbreviation for Link. is there a url rule of thumb for I or l ;0)

Almost forgot. What's my next step, and I don't see Alt anywhere.
Me again. It's one of those I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck kind of days.
Last question honest. If I wanted to change Netflix from GC to another browser. How would I do that?


Don't worry about ALT. You've determined the default browser used, so we can move onto the next step of changing it to something else.

Click Start, then type in Set Your Default Programs. Click on that. If you want Firefox to be your default browser, then click on it and at the bottom click on "Set this program as default". Do that for IE, if that's what you want to be the default browser.
 
Don't worry about ALT. You've determined the default browser used, so we can move onto the next step of changing it to something else.

Click Start, then type in Set Your Default Programs. Click on that. If you want Firefox to be your default browser, then click on it and at the bottom click on "Set this program as default". Do that for IE, if that's what you want to be the default browser.

Bad news. I changed default to FF. Picture still shrunk. Should I try IE? I really don't want IE as my default. But if it will fix the problem, I'll live with it.
 
Bad news. I changed default to FF. Picture still shrunk. Should I try IE? I really don't want IE as my default. But if it will fix the problem, I'll live with it.
Just to check things out,you can set IE as your default & then afterwards you can reset whatever browser you want as your default.
 
Just to check things out,you can set IE as your default & then afterwards you can reset whatever browser you want as your default.

Yes, that or copy the URL and paste that into IE and see whether the movies play the way you want. If it works, then you can change the properties of the Netflix icon where double-clicking on it will open Netflix streaming in IE, w/o changing your default browser.

The existing property will be replaced by the following. Replace Netflix URL w/ the actual URL.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "Netflix URL"
 
Just to check things out,you can set IE as your default & then afterwards you can reset whatever browser you want as your default.

Changed default to IE .Same old problem. Going to try the copy and paste like Rabbit suggested. If that doesnt work, since I've got everything I want saved to a Flashdrive I'm going to bring my computer back to factory settings.
 
Yes, that or copy the URL and paste that into IE and see whether the movies play the way you want. If it works, then you can change the properties of the Netflix icon where double-clicking on it will open Netflix streaming in IE, w/o changing your default browser.

The existing property will be replaced by the following. Replace Netflix URL w/ the actual URL.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "Netflix URL"

Same old thing. "The curse of the shrinking screen."
I'm seriously thinking about bringing my PC back to factory settings. Then I could call Netflix and tell them what I did. I could get Netflix again and maybe this time it would work like it should.
 
Same old thing. "The curse of the shrinking screen."
I'm seriously thinking about bringing my PC back to factory settings. Then I could call Netflix and tell them what I did. I could get Netflix again and maybe this time it would work like it should.
Have you tried contacting them? It might be their problem & not yours.
 
Same old thing. "The curse of the shrinking screen."
I'm seriously thinking about bringing my PC back to factory settings. Then I could call Netflix and tell them what I did. I could get Netflix again and maybe this time it would work like it should.

Maybe something less drastic and use system restore to go back to the day when things were working?
 
Have you tried contacting them? It might be their problem & not yours.

The weird thing is that according to post #34, he's also having problem w/ playing DVD full screen. But who knows, maybe fixing the streaming issue will resolve the other.
 
The weird thing is that according to post #34, he's also having problem w/ playing DVD full screen. But who knows, maybe fixing the streaming issue will resolve the other.

That's right. When I play a DVD with WMP the screen shrinks also, and that has nothing to do with Netflix. Guess maybe I'll just go back as far as I can with system restore.
 
That's right. When I play a DVD with WMP the screen shrinks also, and that has nothing to do with Netflix. Guess maybe I'll just go back as far as I can with system restore.
I'd try contacting Netflix before a system restore. I'd hate to see it be their problem after you restored it & it still happens.Just a thought.
 
I'd try contacting Netflix before a system restore. I'd hate to see it be their problem after you restored it & it still happens.Just a thought.

That would make sense if it were just a streaming problem.But the screen also shrinks when I play a DVD, which uses WMP. which had nothing to do with Netflix.
 
I called customer support. I had them cancel my subscription, then start it up again. Figured that might make it start working properly. It didn't help at all. So I guess the faults with my computer Going to see if I can take system restore back at least 3 weeks, or even a month if possible. Unless someone has something else I could try asking customer support to do.
 
You mentioned something about playing DVD in Winamp? How do you do that? I didn't know it does that. You installed any codec pack (K-lite, CCCP, etc.) on your computer?
 
You mentioned something about playing DVD in Winamp? How do you do that? I didn't know it does that. You installed any codec pack (K-lite, CCCP, etc.) on your computer?

I must have been remembering wrong. I just tried to play a DVD using Winamp, and couldn't do it I guess it was videos I was thinking about. 2 or 3 days ago I downloaded and installed a Windows 7 codex update from Filehippo. As far as I can remember, I haven't installed anything like K-lite or CCCP.
 
Well. It looks like I'm going to have to wait until July 7th before they cancel my subscription. I thought they would do it tonight. But they wont do it until July 7th because I'm payed up until then. So if a system restore doesn't work I'll have to wait until July to see if canceling and resubscribing does any good. Okay. off to do a system restore
 
Well. I can forget about system restore. It will only go back as far as 6/13, and I know the thing started messing up long before that. Looks like bringing my computer back to factory setting is the only thing I got left. But I'm going to wait until tomorrow. Maybe someone will have a brainstorm, before then. I know I still got the cancel resubscribe in July going for me. But I really don't have a lot of faith that it's going to work.
 
I must have been remembering wrong. I just tried to play a DVD using Winamp, and couldn't do it I guess it was videos I was thinking about. 2 or 3 days ago I downloaded and installed a Windows 7 codex update from Filehippo. As far as I can remember, I haven't installed anything like K-lite or CCCP.

So codec pack has been working well, then something happened and you started to experience the problem?
 
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