Hello, I want to start a video streaming site but I was wondering which one would be more efficient for high quality videos? If there are other player please add them. thank you, Ali
95% of everyone uses Flash. The New York Times and Major League Baseball both just dropped Silverlight due to "quality issues" and other problems and MSNBC no longer uses it either.
for me the percentage of userbase doesn't matter but what I want to know is about bandwidth issues, I see many divx sites selling because they can't make profit, but i've been reading and I think silverlight uses less bandwidth than flash for good quality vids but i'm not sure, if anyone can help me. Thank you, Ali
The divx plus web player is great for high quality web video and stands out from the conventional web players out there. check it out for yourself. it supports mkv so you can leaverage 5.1 surround sound, subtitles, and all that good stuff. What do you guys think? Divx Plus Web Player http://labs.divx.com/node/14711
Ever since Adobe took over Flash, it's on it's way out. It's Flash 10 has been awkward and buggy and broke some previous Flash 9 apps. - YouTube has already announced that they will eventually abandon Flash because of bugs, and they are deciding between HTML5 or Microsoft Silverlight. - Silverlight is now used for Netflix's media center - Facebook now has a Silverlight client. - This year, both the NBC and MSNBC websites will be streaming Olympic coverage using Microsoft Silverlight. Apple has refused to support Flash on the iPhone and the iPad. But both the iPhone and iPad will display Silverlight streamed from IIS media services (Adobe's media server will NOT stream Flash to Apple's nice toys) Silverlight 3 is definitely superior to Flash - the apps run faster and are easier to program. Silverlight streams effortlessly over even slow connections. And a lot of developers are overjoyed that you can quickly develop with Silverlight using free Microsoft tools, while Flash CS4 costs $600+! I ran a test on one of my websites and 91% of my visitors were running Silverlight. They did not "just" drop Silverlight - MLB dropped Silverlight 2 way back in April 2009!!! NBC & MSNBC will be using Silverlight 3 starting with the Olympics. MLB is now looking at Silverlight 3 as well.
Flash until html5 video is a standard. Not many people have silverlight installed and its another crappy product, or even worse, just like flash.
I see 91% of my visitors using Silverlight. "another crappy product"? I'm guessing you never bothered to use Silverlight, did you?
I haven't bothered to develop - thats right. I have tried plenty of Silverlight apps, but it's hard to enjoy them if they crush constantly. Maybe things have gone better in version 3, but I want to stay away as much as possible from third-party plug-ins, I think it's better for the web in general to stay away from them and use free and open-source formats to stream video and audio. I have statistics from 3 big websites and they say about 30% have silverlight Installed.
Really??? That's unusual, since Windows Vista/7 come with Silverlight, and it's installed via Windows Update with Windows XP. I'm a little skeptical - how, exactly, are you collecting your Silverlight stats? Do you look to see only if Silverlight is installed, or how are you doing a version check? How did you collect your data? And what type of Silverlight apps do you claim you have tried??? Softpedia is reporting that Silverlight is growing in popularity, and developers like that it's so much easier to program than Flash (ActionScript 3? UGH!)
"When Macs crash, more often than not it's because of Flash" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/05/adobe_security_modest_proposal/
Use Flash. Lot of user have Flash but if you use Silverlight user should install .Net and only after that Silverlight...
You don't need to install .NET runtime to get Silverlight browser plugin to work. Also, MS stats as far as i remeber suggest that silverlight is currently installed on ~60-something % of computers out there. Flash is on >95% of machines. If you build your site for general public, use Flash but have some backup plan to switch..