Silverlight Video Player Too Slow | The Coffeehouse

ktr
two sides to everything

the new silverlight video player is cool, but it is really slow to load. it takes about 30 seconds for me in firefox 2 on xp sp2. and the worst part is during those 30 seconds, firefox becomes unresponsive.

i don't know if this is just a silverlight bug, but it is really annoying. does that happen to anyone else?

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

That seems odd. It shouldn't take that long. You can go into your settings of your profile and where it says "Use Silverlight" just say no. Really though, it would be interesting to find out why it's so slow on your machine. Maybe try uninstalling all versions of Silverlight on your machine, then re-install 1.0 and see what happens.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

It's also lagging here for like 5 seconds before showing it... that's a little bit odd because each time i visit the front page it takes these 5 seconds. I don't know if that is related to the video stream check because after that sometimes the error message (could not connect to stream xxx - or similar) comes up!

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

littleguru wrote:
It's also lagging here for like 5 seconds before showing it... that's a little bit odd because each time i visit the front page it takes these 5 seconds. I don't know if that is related to the video stream check because after that sometimes the error message (could not connect to stream xxx - or similar) comes up!

It's quite possible that's what the problem is for you. We're still trying to figure out the optimal way to get the video down to the player. We may add an option to stream down the wmv instead of connecting to the streaming media server, so whichever works better for people, they can use.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

HumanCompiler wrote:

littleguru wrote: It's also lagging here for like 5 seconds before showing it... that's a little bit odd because each time i visit the front page it takes these 5 seconds. I don't know if that is related to the video stream check because after that sometimes the error message (could not connect to stream xxx - or similar) comes up!

It's quite possible that's what the problem is for you. We're still trying to figure out the optimal way to get the video down to the player. We may add an option to stream down the wmv instead of connecting to the streaming media server, so whichever works better for people, they can use.

I don't know if you need to connect to the media server when I'm only loading the website... I'm not that much into Silverlight to judge that. But if there's a ways to not connect to the media server when loading the website and showing a static image instead that would be great! Smiley

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

littleguru wrote:
I don't know if you need to connect to the media server when I'm only loading the website... I'm not that much into Silverlight to judge that. But if there's a ways to not connect to the media server when loading the website and showing a static image instead that would be great!

That's actually our next step for the player. Smiley

We just haven't gotten there yet.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

HumanCompiler wrote:

littleguru wrote: I don't know if you need to connect to the media server when I'm only loading the website... I'm not that much into Silverlight to judge that. But if there's a ways to not connect to the media server when loading the website and showing a static image instead that would be great!

That's actually our next step for the player. We just haven't gotten there yet.

Great to hear that Smiley