SlingPlayer for Mac Public Beta Review (Page 4 of 9)
SlingPlayer Menu
The SlingPlayer menu contains the preferences menu that opens up a (very well done) Player Preferences window, as well as your services, hide, and quit options. The preference selections are very similar to that on the Windows side except there is no annoying video tuning wizard. This should be a welcome relief to those used to having to always go through this on the Windows side if anything in the video changed. I never have found it to be that good in improving things and the Mac player certainly does not need it considering the video quality is fantastic. The preferences window follows typical Mac format with choices for:
Video – Choose buffering and optimization settings
Encoding – Choose to use SlingStream encoding or set your own parameters
Skins – Choose the Skin for your copy of SlingPlayer (Windows skins are NOT importable at this time).
Connections – Takes you to the OS-X Proxy Control Panel in Network Settings.
In the SlingPlayer Menu if you select “About Slingplayer” you get the typical descriptive information on a program. One interesting thing to note is that SlingPlayer uses technology licensed from Microsoft. I’m speculating, but it looks like Sling Media did have to license WMV technology for the Mac and possibly write their own codec. If this is the case, they certainly did an outstanding job developing a way to play WMV on the Mac platform.
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