Friday, August 8, 2008

I am not real fan of the Summer Olympics, I find it all pretty boring stuff. I wanted to check out the Olympics Silverlight player, because I am interested in technology.

So I checked the player out. It took about 5 tries to actually get something to load, but finally I did see some video going.

The recorded stuff is kind of interesting, the quality of the video is good, especially when going to enhanced mode. I wanted to check out some LIVE footage though.

I hooked up my Verizon FiOS up to the player and then went to enhanced mode. Hey, Olympics without commentators -- sweet. Again, the video is sweet and smooth. But right-clicking on the player causes the whole front-end to drop out and display a big red block instead of UI. Sometimes the only way to get the UI back to show is to actually pop the Silverlight Preferences window. That's a weird bug. Firefox 3.0.1 on Leopard. Unless you can script an event to the right-click on the plugin.

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