Web Based SlingPlayer for Mac Public Beta Released From "Sling in the News: Sling Community

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June 12, 2009 8:34 PM

Plugin only seems to work in full screen mode. I don't get any video in a regular browser window, audio works fine in either mode though.

Anyone else having this issue?

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June 12, 2009 10:43 PM

toptekJon said:

Plugin only seems to work in full screen mode. I don't get any video in a regular browser window, audio works fine in either mode though.

Anyone else having this issue?

I've seen reports of this but have not seen it myself.

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June 13, 2009 12:37 AM

NA9D said:
toptekJon said: Plugin only seems to work in full screen mode. I don't get any video in a regular browser window, audio works fine in either mode though. Anyone else having this issue?
I've seen reports of this but have not seen it myself.

Thanks for the reply. I know it's a beta, hopefully development moves quickly from here. The web plug in is already better than I was expecting.

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June 17, 2009 8:44 AM

Man, I am still surprised that I CANNOT get this thing to work. I have tried all THREE of my macs, including an older imac that has the original safari 3.02 or whatever is on it.

Safari, FF, safari 4 (set to dev and older code header) It ALL crashes.

I would just point out though, that APPLE released earlier this week SAFARI 4 but NOT in beta, so MANY people are going to be upgrading to Safari 4 as a point of software update and then not be able to use this one.

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June 17, 2009 9:28 AM

Well, my feeling is that Sling dropped the ball on this one and released this too early. It's obviously working very different for different people. I've had no problems with running it on beta versions of Safari 4 (haven't tried it on the release version yet). Yet others like TB here can't run it at all. Still others get no video unless they are in full screen mode. It's been out a couple weeks now and no new updates from Sling which is somewhat odd considering that a public beta should first of all work nearly 90 to 95 percent of the time and there should be frequent updates. But considering that Sling.com has been in beta for nearly a year (or is my memory bad), I'm not hopeful. At least the majority of Sling.com works. Leaving sites in "beta" is the new "cool" and "Google" way of doing things. BLECH!

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June 17, 2009 10:29 AM

Yeah, my browser crashes EVERY time I try. On both Safari and Firefox!

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June 17, 2009 12:16 PM

Not sure if this was mentioned already...but one thing I noticed is that if you type in the wrong password, your browser will crash instantly. Every time.
At least that's what happened to me.

If you are using different passwords for the admin and view only mode, try using both passwords and seeing if one works for you. Once I logged in with "root" level password, it worked ok for me.