In today's video, featuring Sampy from the dev team and Adam Kinney... some guy who used to work on the dev team... they talk about putting a Silverlight player on C9, C8, C10, etc.... 
Well, we managed to get the player running on this site in dev, but the problem is we are running into intermittent media errors with some of our streaming media files when played in Silverlight.
If you hit any of our relatively new videos (in the video forum only, and going back a few months) with an additional query parameter of "Silverlight=true" then you will get to see the SL player. If you do this, can you let me know if you get any error about
the media file... and if so, what entry or entries you get it on?
We've updated the Mike Nash video to use a different streaming media server than all the rest so you might want to try at least that video
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=343787&Silverlight=true
and this one, that uses the 'normal' streaming media server
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=339887&Silverlight=true
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Duncanma
"yeah that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by"
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Cyonix
Me
Both worked fine for me
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CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?
Both worked fine here, too.
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keeron
Obsessive Geek
Works for me too
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Sampy
And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide
Works on the home page too!
http://channel9.msdn.com/?Silverlight=true
Video in Firefox, pretty sweet eh? -
CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?
Sampy wrote:Works on the home page too!
http://channel9.msdn.com/?Silverlight=true
Video in Firefox, pretty sweet eh?
Ooh, snazzy
Me likes... as I said in the video thread, the Silverlight player beats WMP any day.
Only thing I'd add is full-screen
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Sven Groot
Don't worry... I'm a doctor.
Both work fine for me.
EDIT: Although I could easily figure out double-clicking makes it go full screen, a full screen button probably wouldn't do any harm. -
Sampy
And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide
Sven Groot wrote:Both work fine for me.
EDIT: Although I could easily figure out double-clicking makes it go full screen, a full screen button probably wouldn't do any harm.
Oh yeah, we'll be putting that in. Erik just remarked one day that it was cool you could double-click and get full screen. I was quite surprised.
Consider it a bonus
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Can I pause one of these vids and let the whole thing stream down on a slow connection, like I can on Youtube?
There doesn't seem to be any visual indication of how much has already come down, even while paused. -
Both work for me and they play fullscreen just fine, which is nice because double clicking on a Flash video doesn't do that.
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Cyonix
Me
Yeah that doesn't happen for me either...mabster wrote:Can I pause one of these vids and let the whole thing stream down on a slow connection, like I can on Youtube?
There doesn't seem to be any visual indication of how much has already come down, even while paused.
Does this happen with all Silverlight players? if so that is a huge drawback, i hate sites that dont buffer while it's paused. -
Sampy
And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide
mabster wrote:Can I pause one of these vids and let the whole thing stream down on a slow connection, like I can on Youtube?
There doesn't seem to be any visual indication of how much has already come down, even while paused.
It's not downloading the video like Flash. It's hooked up to a Windows Media Streaming Server which supports seeking to any point in the video at any time. Try it: grab the thumb and drag all the way to the end and you'll buffer for a moment then start watching.
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Ok, thanks Sampy. I'll give it a go at home on my 512kb/s connection while I'm downloading something and see how it performs.
I love being able to pause a video and let it come down so I can watch the whole thing without any stuttering as it buffers. With any luck I won't need to if the streaming server concept works. -
Duncanma
"yeah that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by"
mabster wrote:Ok, thanks Sampy. I'll give it a go at home on my 512kb/s connection while I'm downloading something and see how it performs.
It should work the same as watching it in Windows Media Player here on C9... both of them are using the same stream and behave the same way I believe. If we point Silverlight (or WMP) at a http:// link to a video then you'll see the buffering, but streaming is intended to remove the need for that. Of course, it does buffer some video... I believe it grabs 3+ seconds ahead... -
AdamKinney
Agent of Change
Nice job guys, Flip the switch!
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Cyonix
Me
ah ok cool.Sampy wrote:It's not downloading the video like Flash. It's hooked up to a Windows Media Streaming Server which supports seeking to any point in the video at any time. Try it: grab the thumb and drag all the way to the end and you'll buffer for a moment then start watching.
Although this is a little off topic, will the default silverlight player buffer while it paused if its not hooked up to WMS Server? -
Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.
Heh... I only have Silverlight 1.1 Alpha installed, and it doesn't recognise it. I get the "install silverlight you muppet" box, but when i try i get the "you've already got, like, a totally better version dullard." message.
Is this just a problem with the Alpha, or a problem with the silverlight detecting code?
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Rowan
Look, no errors.
It doesn't work for me in Firefox 2 or 3 on Vista, I just see the Get Silverlight button, yet the Silverlight test page does work in both versions of Firefox.
It works in IE7.
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