The problem appears to be a Flash/IE9 issue. I am running Win7 x64. The player does not load at all in IE9, but seems to be working fine in Chrome, Opera, and Firefox. I just noticed full screen mode in Chrome, Firefox and Opera is useless though, it doesn't overlay the start bar.... I do not want to have to muck with my start menu settings every time I want to watch Anime on here to turn auto-hide on and off.
As an aside, I have been having issues with laggy playback for awhile now. I have a 20Mbps connection, and I just redid this machine last week with an SSD drive. I don't have issues playing streams on Hulu, YouTube, or Crunchy Roll. Quad core AMD CPU, Radeon HD 6670 video card, 8GB ram, I know it's not a hardware issue, and I have more than enough bandwidth. Is anyone else experiencing laggy/pausing playback? It's gotten so bad lately I've had to start watching in SD because the HD streams lag and pause so frequently they are unwatchable. It's even worse the newer the video is, although even older episodes seem to be having issues now. I'm to the point where I'm seriously considering wrapping up the last few shows I'm currently watching and ditching completely. I don't have these issues with Crunchy Roll....
Thank you!