This week MLB.com rolled out a Silverlight video player on some of their article pages.
I think it’s great that MLB adopted Silverlight so early after the RC1 player release. But I have to say that the implementation seems a little shotty to me. I had issues with the controls hanging when I was trying to Pause/Play the video and dragging the scrub bar is glitchy.
It also looks like they used bitmapped graphics on the control buttons which aren’t scaling well. Try comparing the article player to the full player to see what I mean.
I know, I know,.. it says “Beta” in the upper right corner and I do applaud MLB for adopting Silverlight. I just know they can do better, and I wouldn’t want anyone to think this is the best Silverlight has to offer. Hopefully they’ll get it tightened up soon.
Via - Mike Harsh’s Blog
1 comment so far ↓
They didn’t. A year later and it’s still horrible, the MLB
forums being full of digruntled paying customers.
Thank God for the technically minded persons in those
forums offering us workarounds enabling us to watch our
baseball fix without using this garbage.
Bottom line….
Silverlight= choppy video, audio/video out of sync,
random crashes….
Workarounds= none of the above.
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