How To Watch The Olympics With Silverlight OR Windows Media Player

Since a lot of viewers are querying Google on how to watch the Olympics without having to use the Silverlight player and instead use the Windows Media player, here are the instructions.

Go to www.NBCOlympics.com and click on the video tab. Then click any video to watch and you'll get a popup window with video in it. If you already have the Silverlight player installed it will automatically use that unless you click the "standard player" link. Doing that will put you into a single stream that uses the Windows Media player. If you do not have Silverlight installed, you will get the option to install it. If you don't, you will just get a Windows Media based stream

Still having problems? E-mail me and I'll try and help.

Comments

[Ben Waggoner]

@peter

You definintely should upgrade to XP Service Pack 2 at an absolute minimum. SP2 is much more secure, and generally required for software that runs on XP these days.

SP3 is also out now, although it's not as big an upgrade as SP2 was.

[mike jasinski]

Silverlight not loading DRM video on mac intel

hello, i'm having troubles with silverlight (Version 2.0 (2.0.31005.0)). The plugin works fine, except for "DRM" video, like "http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html" and "netflix watch instantly". The area where the video should load is completely blank. I've reinstalled multiple times, deleted all related files, reinstalled, restarted, repaired permissions, loaded a new user account, changed my network security settings to allow everything to pass through, etc. When i goto silverlight preferences (right clicking), DRM is enabled, but the application storage window doesn't have any websites listed, and from what i understand both NBC and NETFLIX should be listed there. Mac 10.5.5 - all applications and system completely updated tried in both safari and firefox - both up to date. Hardware Overview: Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro3,1 Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz Number Of Processors: 2 Total Number Of Cores: 8 L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB Memory: 12 GB

[FoxFire123]

@peter

If you have access to a computer with XP SP2 on it and want to install the Firefox Silverlight plugin, you can just copy /Program Files/Microsoft Silverlight/2.0.40115.0 over to the XP SP1 computer and update the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MozillaPlugins on the XP SP1 computer via the Export/Import feature of RegEdit.

Microsoft has a condescending parental attitude towards its users, so they hide file extensions by default and release installers that require service packs when they are not actually needed. XP SP2 is/was a bunch of hype; it does little or nothing to improve security.