I've spent some substantial time converting our video serving over to Silverlight, but now I'm considering going back to embedded Windows Media Player. Why? Because Silverlight video streaming is very slow when compared to Windows Media Player. At least
that is my experience.
We run Windows Media Server on a Windows 2003 machine to stream video over http protocol. With the embedded Windows Media Player on a web page the video begins almost instantly, as does moving the position bar to another location in a long video.
With Silverlight loading is typically slower, but moving the position bar to another location is REALLY slow. Sometime 8 seconds or more compared to a second with Windows Media Player.
Is this issue addressed in the Silverlight 2 beta?
JoeReynolds
Member
57 Points
30 Posts
Silverlight SLOW
Mar 17, 2008 05:27 PM | LINK
I've spent some substantial time converting our video serving over to Silverlight, but now I'm considering going back to embedded Windows Media Player. Why? Because Silverlight video streaming is very slow when compared to Windows Media Player. At least that is my experience.
We run Windows Media Server on a Windows 2003 machine to stream video over http protocol. With the embedded Windows Media Player on a web page the video begins almost instantly, as does moving the position bar to another location in a long video.
With Silverlight loading is typically slower, but moving the position bar to another location is REALLY slow. Sometime 8 seconds or more compared to a second with Windows Media Player.
Is this issue addressed in the Silverlight 2 beta?