Hi there,
I was wondering if anybody could help us here with these two questions which both relate to Silverlight/Moonlight. So:
1. What is the cross-platform availability of Silverlight? Any experience?
2. Do you have any information about the deal between Microsoft and Novel concerning Silverlight and Moonlight. Is is true that Microsoft tries to release the specifications with some delay? So actually the Moonlight can not work well even if the community tries. What is the overall background of Moonlight development & release.
Your help would be highly appreciated,
Martin
Hello,
- What is the cross-platform availability of Silverlight? Any
experience?
A little. I looked at it a while ago. On GNU/Linux, there are some browser plugins (Moonlight project), but they didn't work out of the box for me. Firefox marked that plugin as incompatibile, I had to disable the version check to make it work. Chromium didn't work at all.
I tested it on two things - Microsoft's smooth streaming demo site (silverlight-based media player adapting to client's CPU and network bandwith), which turned to be a disaster (it worked, but performance couldn't have been much worse) and one Windows-based media publishing system, which uses silverlight for playing presentations, but playback didn't work at all (I'm not sure if it is a Moonlight issue, though).
I should also mention that playing videos through Moonlight requires downloading proprietary codecs.
I didn't test it anywhere else, and I quickly removed it from my machine afterwards.
- Do you have any information about the deal between Microsoft and
Novel concerning Silverlight and Moonlight. Is is true that Microsoft tries to release the specifications with some delay? So actually the Moonlight can not work well even if the community tries. What is the overall background of Moonlight development & release.
No idea there.
Regards, Michal Docekal
Dne Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:26:03 +0100 Martin Husovec husovec@fsfe.org napsal(a):
Hi there,
I was wondering if anybody could help us here with these two questions which both relate to Silverlight/Moonlight. So:
- What is the cross-platform availability of Silverlight? Any
experience?
- Do you have any information about the deal between Microsoft and
Novel concerning Silverlight and Moonlight. Is is true that Microsoft tries to release the specifications with some delay? So actually the Moonlight can not work well even if the community tries. What is the overall background of Moonlight development & release.
Your help would be highly appreciated,
Martin
Hello,
- What is the cross-platform availability of Silverlight? Any
experience?
A little. I looked at it a while ago. For GNU/Linux, there are some browser plugins (Moonlight project), but they didn't work out of the box. Firefox marked that plugin as incompatibile, so I had to disable the version check to make it work. Chromium didn't work at all.
Using Firefox, I tested it on two things - Microsoft's smooth streaming demo site (silverlight-based media player adapting to client's CPU and network bandwith), which worked, but performance couldn't have been much worse (slideshow instead of playback) and one Windows-based media publishing system, which uses silverlight for playing presentations, but playback didn't work there at all (I'm not sure if it is a Moonlight issue, though).
I didn't test it anywhere else and I quickly removed it from my machine afterwards.
I should also mention that playing videos through Moonlight requires downloading proprietary codecs (which is handled by the plugin).
- Do you have any information about the deal between Microsoft [...]
No idea there.
Regards, Michal Docekal
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:26:03 +0100 Martin Husovec husovec@fsfe.org wrote:
Hi there,
I was wondering if anybody could help us here with these two questions which both relate to Silverlight/Moonlight. So:
- What is the cross-platform availability of Silverlight? Any
experience?
- Do you have any information about the deal between Microsoft and
Novel concerning Silverlight and Moonlight. Is is true that Microsoft tries to release the specifications with some delay? So actually the Moonlight can not work well even if the community tries. What is the overall background of Moonlight development & release.
Your help would be highly appreciated,
Martin