buddydvd/callback-ios — comment on commit f405f8c4e695b2236b27cd631be43dbdf1b3892a
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By tstellanova-sfdc:

Using sendSynchronousRequest seems like a bad idea if the URL is NOT a file URL. Unless this code is guaranteed to run on a background thread, there's the potential to lockup the UI thread.

Another option would be to load the required data asynchronously using NSURLConnection, and then kickoff the player when the data has been returned asynchronously.