Think on this, people: Macromedia introduced true video embedding in Flash a little more than a year ago and it spawned a billion-dollar company and made another billion-dollar company quake in its boots. So now we have Silverlight, a streaming solution from MS that runs on Windows and Mac and can deliver HD-quality video with a few clicks.
After dealing with YouTube’s quality issues for far too long, Silverlight seems like a great solution. It supports WMVs and lets you add a branded player with a bit of XML and HTML coding.
It supports playback of WMV files on both PC and Macintosh, with many options for interactivity during playback; with just a couple of lines of code, you can provide a platform-neutral way to handle all your movie files. Silverlight supports full-screen 720p video and offers seamless transitions between full-screen and windowed mode without losing your position in the video (something that media sites are crying out for today).
Sounds good to me. We’ll give it a whirl and let you know how it works.
Silverlight is much more than just a video player…
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
It made my firefox crash
yep, this is the first step of MS showing off their WPFE along other things. like the new .net,etc.
I can’t wait to see silverlight. it’s great flash has a serious competitor now.
vhua, pura vhua :)
I hope that MS starts using open source/standard codecs and a version that will run on Linux. Otherwise, who cares – it is just another proprietary lock in to MS software. I would prefer to go to a website that uses standards based technologies – like google (utube). I’m sure the video capabilities will improve.
silverlight ndeye mhata chete. mhata ndidzo dzega dzinoshandisa matuzvi akadai