Side-by-Side Player Comparison

Here’s another video test with some high bit rate video.  The video data rate is just over 6MB so your internet connection is going to need to be pretty fat to play these back without stuttering or buffering.  On the Silverlight 2 Standard Player with the controls that are always displayed, you’ll notice two indicators on the progress bar.  One for playback and one for the progress of the download.  If playback is always catching up with the download progress and buffing, it will be visually apparent there.  You can click pause and let the download continue for a while, then playback should be better.

Silverlight 2 Standard Player

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Black Glass Player

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