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Anything that puts pressure on Adobe to improve their pathetic deployment of Flash on Mac's is a good thing.
I played a streaming Silverlight movie and it didn't make my fans go crazy like Flash does.
If you've got a Netflix subscription, you need to install Silverlight to play streaming video from Netflix.
As much as I hate to say it, Silverlight seems to outclass Flash in every way. It's one of the best pieces of software that Microsoft has released in a long time.
Silverlight 3 Adds H.264 Support, Hardware Acceleration
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Microsoft has officially launched Silverlight 3, the latest major update to their web media platform.
New features in Silverlight 3 include the addition of H.264/AAC codec support and "Smooth Streaming" which "dynamically detects and seamlessly switches, in real time, the video quality of a media file delivered to Silverlight based on local bandwidth and CPU conditions." Full-screen resolutions up to 720p are supported with GPU hardware acceleration. Additional feature details and a download of the plug-in are available from Microsoft's website (Intel-only).
Silverlight has made some inroads since being launched in 2007, with Netflix using the technology to deliver streaming video content to PCs and Macs. Other big-name providers using Silverlight include NBC, Tata Motors, and Continental Airlines. Microsoft provides runtimes for Windows, Mac, and Linux, however development is limited to Windows platforms.
While Silverlight competes mostly with Adobe's Flash, Apple has been working to blunt the impact of such technologies with their efforts on standards-based HTML5 and today's news of 3D CSS effects in Snow Leopard's Safari.
Article Link: Silverlight 3 Adds H.264 Support, Hardware Acceleration
Microsoft has officially launched Silverlight 3, the latest major update to their web media platform.
New features in Silverlight 3 include the addition of H.264/AAC codec support and "Smooth Streaming" which "dynamically detects and seamlessly switches, in real time, the video quality of a media file delivered to Silverlight based on local bandwidth and CPU conditions." Full-screen resolutions up to 720p are supported with GPU hardware acceleration. Additional feature details and a download of the plug-in are available from Microsoft's website (Intel-only).
Silverlight has made some inroads since being launched in 2007, with Netflix using the technology to deliver streaming video content to PCs and Macs. Other big-name providers using Silverlight include NBC, Tata Motors, and Continental Airlines. Microsoft provides runtimes for Windows, Mac, and Linux, however development is limited to Windows platforms.
While Silverlight competes mostly with Adobe's Flash, Apple has been working to blunt the impact of such technologies with their efforts on standards-based HTML5 and today's news of 3D CSS effects in Snow Leopard's Safari.
Article Link: Silverlight 3 Adds H.264 Support, Hardware Acceleration
Don't need it, won't download it. It's just another proprietary bait to lock users into a technology that will later stop being updated and lag behind Windows versions, just like every other piece of MS junk released for Macs. Sensible users should STAY clear of yet another monopolistic act by our favorite software company, not to mention the fact that it phones home.
MS IS DEAD.
MS IS DEAD.
Nice to see they're doing regular updates.
Hopefully this allow netflix and others to stream more hd material.
Hopefully this allow netflix and others to stream more hd material.
No, you wont need to uninstall Adobe first. Things that are designed for Adobe will still need Adobe, but things that are designed for Silverlight will require Silverlight
-The alternative is flash, which is also horrible on macs
-I like apple, but if there's one thing they love to do it's pushing their own formats and locking in users, I don't think only MS is to blame.
I was excited to see this update hoping that they fixed a Known bug. When watching Silverlight content on an external monitor the content will not play full screen. It initially plays full screen but as soon as you click anything on your main display the Silverlight content on the external monitor reverts back to windowed mode. This feature is desired because a lot of Netflix subscribers (including myself) would like to watch Netflix streaming content full screen on their external monitor.
FYI for anyone trying to solve this: Plex is free and does enable external monitor full screen playback from Netflix with a free plugin. The negative is that the fast forward and rewind controls don't work properly in plex (yet).
FYI for anyone trying to solve this: Plex is free and does enable external monitor full screen playback from Netflix with a free plugin. The negative is that the fast forward and rewind controls don't work properly in plex (yet).
This seems to be more of a step to the side though. Why cant we have a CSS/Javascript based engine which uses .VOB?
Have you even tried it or are you just saying that because your are biased against microsoft? I think silverlight kicks flash's butt.
http://www.shinedraw.com/mathematics/silverlight-vs-flash-throwing-object/
NBC dropped Silverlight(fish) a while ago.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nbc_drops_silverlight_runs_back_to_adobe_for_flash.php
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nbc_drops_silverlight_runs_back_to_adobe_for_flash.php