WOW. I was very, very surprised by how high the quality of streamed video is that I’m seeing in Silverlight. I downloaded the latest plug-in (the 1.0, not the 1.1 Alpha) and navigated over to the FOX Video Browser example. The video quality is unbelievable. Go to the demo, install the plug-in (if you need to), start a video, and then double click in the video to go full-screen. It’s impressive.
I’ve also been using Joost for several weeks now, and have been giving the quality the benefit of the doubt because I felt it was reasonable that quality be constrained by bandwidth and codec limitations. Well, the Silverlight streaming example utilizing Microsoft’s codec is far better at this point.
Full disclosure: I am having a problem with the plug-in and Safari (I’m viewing the samples in Firefox). I’m not sure what the issue is and am going to see if anyone here from Microsoft can provide some advice.
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