So far I've had 0 problems with Silverlight... anytime I can install new plugins and then NOT have to restart my browser for it to start working, I am happy.
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
Works well for me, too. Live streaming is surprisingly good quality.
Bob
· 1 year ago
The only problem I'm having is that it's making it hard to do other stuff ... must close window ...
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
I hear you! :)
Palin Ningthoujam
· 1 year ago
AIR seemed to have gone too far enough now with all the AIR apps for Twitter and Friendfeed going on all over the places in the past few months. Silverlight needs its angel and may be the Olympic flames is one that can help it light up a bit. Let's hope for the best for Silverlight. We like competition and the better competition we have, the better for us end users.
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
Agreed. Competition is good.
Chris
· 1 year ago
I had no problems, but Silverlight lacks user friendly features like the Youtube. The navigation links could have been better. NBC could have chosen YouTube and could have had even more views. They lost a good opportunity in my opinion.
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· 1 year ago
That is nbc fault. there is nothing that can be done in flex/flash that cannot be done in silverlight 2.0
dorren
· 1 year ago
"there is nothing that can be done in flex/flash that cannot be done in silverlight 2.0"
Show me how to code a multithreaded responsive app in Flex/Flash then.
dorren
· 1 year ago
oops, I posted the wrong reply. Sorry. Got too many tabs open and lost the track.
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
No problemo.
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· 1 year ago
"multithreaded responsive app in Flex/Flash then"
oops, I posted the wrong reply. Sorry. Got too many tabs open and lost the track."
heh. was about to laugh until you corrected shortly. :D
Ryan Stewart
· 1 year ago
Ummmm. Use a microphone?
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
YouTube has inferior quality and video delivery. Silverlight is proving very enjoyable on the NBC Olympics website.
Also, I should note that video performance (quality, lack of interruptions) is almost entirely on the server side. NBC has clearly invested in quite a bit of backend power and bandwidth. This post in WSJ dabbles in backstage details:
I've been pretty impressed too. The live streaming on the NBCOlympics.com site is pretty stunning. I've probably watched 6 hours now and the image quality is amazing. I've had no buffering on broadband.
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
That's key. Enjoying what's on your computer display is what sends it home. You don't tire of it. Well, except for the advertisements :-)
Eric
· 1 year ago
The silverlight 2.0 is not available for PPC macs... so I'm out. :-(
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
Oh, yeah, I forgot about PPC. I was using PPC for a long while, too. Only switched to Intel-powered late last year after a long stint with a PowerBook G4. Those were the days. I couldn't even watch YouTube without video regularly stuttering.
polyGeek
· 1 year ago
How many times do people dis the quality of video at youTube and blame it on Flash? Think about it: who puts video up on youTube? Mostly amateurs with consumer recorders that ends up being compressed multiple times before we see it.
Ya think maybe the video you're seeing from the Olympics might be done by professionals with high end digital recorders?
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· 1 year ago
partly true, partly not true. i have done many tests in several video sites. from the very same file, a file with good quality and so have done others. the worst output has always been youtube. i mean, really. give it a try. upload a file to soapbox and then upload the same file to youtube and see which one is better.
that is because of youtube. that is why they got their "see in high quality" option for when a video gets popular or active enough. that turns out to be a "see how it should have been converted like" option.
Michael
· 1 year ago
Silverlight is poise to be the dominant RIA in the near future because of its advance architecture. And considering the ecosystem thats built around .NET's framework from servers to developer and designer tools, quite formidable.
Nick Kwiatkowski
· 1 year ago
If the Silverlight implantation of the Olympics coverage would bring anything more to the table that the Flash version does (really, 4 video feeds? what, is this CNN's political coverage?) then I might be happier with it. I mean, besides the fact you have to install some bloatware that makes my Mac unhappy, but I digress. Had they done something as innovative as http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/docroot/to... I think it would have been palatable. Microsoft, this just screams "I want to be popular too! Look I can do 4 video feeds!!". Meh.
Marc Jarman
· 1 year ago
Is YouTube was H.264 now - not Flash.
Yvette
· 1 year ago
I didn't have to download because I think I must have done so for some other video in the past. The streaming video and sound was surprisingly good quality. No glitches or jumps and it never froze. I don't know if that's because I was watching in the wee hours for a first round rain delayed tennis match. So far, I'm a big fan.
Alex (send SMS from PC)
· 1 year ago
Installed. No problem here. One thing I've noticed Silverlight could do better than flesh is ability to have full screen transparent scalable animation without affecting performance much...
Adam
· 1 year ago
You seem to have forgotten the option for 'Couldn't see anything as I'm on Linux'? Nice one MS!
This should allow you to view Silverlight on Linux.
David
· 1 year ago
Has anyone seen large live events such as the Olympics or the Primary Elections using Flash? No, because it cannot be scaled. There is a reason why CNN.com uses Windows Media for their live streams. Flash is great for on demand (YouTube), but is not ready for primetime for huge single live events. Ustream.tv Justin.tv do not count. Those are simultaneous, low-trafficked channels.
George
· 1 year ago
It’s just wrong for NBC to use MICROSOFT technology for providing Olympic content. They should be using W3C.org standards. They are blocking Linux and other non Windows users (BSD, Solaris, UNIX, …).
Scott
· 1 year ago
Hm, what video plugin is a W3C standard?
Will
· 1 year ago
Silverlight 1 works on Mac and PC, Silverligth 2 works on Intel Macs and PC. Moonlight (open source port of Silverlight) is being ported now to all major distros of Linux. Stop whining for whining's sake...
russ
· 1 year ago
It's funny though that they still used Flex for the app on the home page to choose the videos to watch. I guess they wanted to make sure "everyone" could see that part.
Pascal V
· 1 year ago
1) I had to reboot the computer to get silverlight working ... minus one
2) Once back online, you are stuck with a page with a white area till you click on a picture video => not good design
3) After all that you are told to back away if you are not from the USA !!! Thanks Silverlight for helping closing the borders of the web ! ... especially for the Olympics ! How symbolic this is
John
· 1 year ago
Actually, the non-US part of your comment should be directed at NBC. The reason you can not view outside the US is because NBC has an exclusive contract to show the Olympics IN THE US ONLY. The restriction has nothing to do with Silverlight.
TheLaw
· 1 year ago
good to have competition. Right now Adobe costs everyone plenty by having a virtual monopoly thanks to the US Government's inability to care about enforcing antitrust measures. I've had a very good experience with Silverlight and works well, especially for a first attempt.
sean01
· 1 year ago
I see flash is gone in 2 years!
JeffH
· 1 year ago
As usual, another piece of garbage from Microsoft. I just want to remove it from my computer.
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Show me how to code a multithreaded responsive app in Flex/Flash then.
oops, I posted the wrong reply. Sorry. Got too many tabs open and lost the track."
heh. was about to laugh until you corrected shortly. :D
Also, I should note that video performance (quality, lack of interruptions) is almost entirely on the server side. NBC has clearly invested in quite a bit of backend power and bandwidth. This post in WSJ dabbles in backstage details:
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/08/08/whats-b...
Ya think maybe the video you're seeing from the Olympics might be done by professionals with high end digital recorders?
that is because of youtube. that is why they got their "see in high quality" option for when a video gets popular or active enough. that turns out to be a "see how it should have been converted like" option.
So far, I'm a big fan.
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
This should allow you to view Silverlight on Linux.
Flash is great for on demand (YouTube), but is not ready for primetime for huge single live events. Ustream.tv Justin.tv do not count. Those are simultaneous, low-trafficked channels.
2) Once back online, you are stuck with a page with a white area till you click on a picture video
=> not good design
3) After all that you are told to back away if you are not from the USA !!!
Thanks Silverlight for helping closing the borders of the web ! ... especially for the Olympics ! How symbolic this is