silverlight vs flash on Mackbook pro


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I am wondering what type of performance people are getting from silverlight and flash movies on macbook pros. In my experience, silverlight is much better. For comparison, you can check the following movies (one for silverlight in 1080p and another in flash 1080p). On the flash movie make sure to choose 1080p option.

silverlight 1080p example

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I don't have a macbook so I can't test this, but I'm sick of 1080p videos on youtube using flash. They're beyond pointless... constantly skipping.

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I don't see any performance issues in running the flash or silverlight video. I don't feel like the silverlight looks as good. Perhaps it's my monitor (Running the new mac mini, just purchased it)

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I don't see any performance issues in running the flash or silverlight video. I don't feel like the silverlight looks as good. Perhaps it's my monitor (Running the new mac mini, just purchased it)

One thing to note is that Silverlight has a feature that lowers the quality of the video playback based on your bandwidth and it is adapted. Flash video buffers a predetermined amount based on your connection speed, and if your connection speed hi-cups then it is just going to stop and rebuffer. In the case of Silverlight, if your connection hic-ups then your video will look slightly more pixelated for a few moments but there shouldn't be any rebuffering (unless it absolutely has to).

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One thing to note is that Silverlight has a feature that lowers the quality of the video playback based on your bandwidth and it is adapted. Flash video buffers a predetermined amount based on your connection speed, and if your connection speed hi-cups then it is just going to stop and rebuffer. In the case of Silverlight, if your connection hic-ups then your video will look slightly more pixelated for a few moments but there shouldn't be any rebuffering (unless it absolutely has to).

That would make since... I have comcast 16 down service, but it was acting horrendously slow (Believe my router was to blame and is almost EOL).

That's good to know. In-fact that is ingenious on MS part.

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That would make since... I have comcast 16 down service, but it was acting horrendously slow (Believe my router was to blame and is almost EOL).

That's good to know. In-fact that is ingenious on MS part.

Actually, now that I'm at home and actually watched the videos the Silverlight one isn't as good of quality. I think the video that is posted on the MS website is only 720p.

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The silverlight is 1080p? When I play it on Fullscreen it doesn't look as nice and sharp a the 1080p YouTube video.

No. The silverlight one isn't 1080p. It looks like 720p at most. It would be nice if the MS website said what the resolution is.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Model Identifier: MacBook5,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2 GHz

L2 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 2 GB

OSX 10.5.8

Both run smooth. Silverlight one looks like crap, youtube one looks way better.

EDIT: Mine's a first-gen aluminum MacBook (not pro) @ 1 year old.

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Who really gives a crap about how it runs on OSX... really.. when I build apps I care how it runs on 95% of the machines.. I'm not losing sleep for it running crappy on an Apple OS.

Here's a solution.. get a PC and Windows 7 and both will run silky smooth. :laugh:

Btw, silverlight drags like crap if you maximize Netflix in a browser window on Snow Leopard. Flash runs better. Neither run great, but as I said, I don't lose sweat for it, cause that's what you get when you go with something that has minuscule market share.

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