The varying features of Silverlight - A look
What is SilverLight? There is a huge demand for the media playback in a web page to provide reach user experience. We usually find many videos, audios and graphics content in a web page for different purposes. Moreover, many websites are totally dedicated for on demand videos like youtube.com, vimeo.com and many more. As a web developer, we must possess a sound knowledge on different plugins available in the market which can be used to run different multimedia files on the web like flash player, active X plugin etc. SilverLight is such a piece of plugin which can be used to play various types of media on the web browser when being installed as a plugin. It is a product from Microsoft and hence we can expect best quality, efficiency and reliability from this.
SilverLight for video decoding: Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running reach internet applications (RIA) for different multimedia files like MP3 or Video files. It has an IIS7 media services 3.0 extensions which is extremely reliable for streaming of on demand video and live videos using HTTP protocols. Moreover it provides an extra ordinary user experience while watching high quality videos. It doesn’t require any extra external peripherals for this purpose.
Cross Platform Compatibility: Though silverlight is a product from Microsoft we can expect its compatibility with windows operating system and internet explorer browser. But it also supports Apple’s MAC operating system, Linux operating system etc as well. Moreover, it also supports browsers like Google chrome, Apple’s safari, Firefox etc. So this is really a cross platform plugin for the web developers.
Skin of the player: Silverlight provides much flexibility to the web developers and web designers to modify the graphics and controls of the player. A web designer can create his own graphics for different controls of the media player and can implement those changes to the player without much effort. The best part is it doesn’t require lots of effort or expertise in coding for these kinds of customization. A web developer can change the shape, look and feel of different components like buttons, scroll bars, draggable thumbs etc to provide better and unique user experience to the end user. The web designer can also customise the colours, shapes and sizes of these components as well.
3D Graphics: Silverlight 5 provides a unique platform to apply content to a 3D plain. The web developers can now scale or rotate a live content in space without much effort paying for the coding. Moreover we can create attractive 3D graphics which can be rendered in our web application pages. This really improves the user experience to a higher level.
Playback speed control: The SilverLight framework has a nice feature to control the playback speed i.e. now the web application developer can control the speed of the playback like slowing down the speed or increasing the playback speed. This can be done using the new TrickPlay feature.
Remote control: With XBOX, now the web developers can make the media player to be controlled by the user. This really gives an awesome experience to the user. Finally, with the latest Sileverlight framework, we can access a wide range of third party codecs for different audio and video formats including previous H.264 and MP3 formats. You can get in touch with a Silverlight software development company who can help you develop web apps that are stable, scalable and secure.
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