[CALUG] moonlight ( silverlight) plus codecs ?

[Walt Smith]

Just wondering if anyone has tried Silverlight" equivalent 

for Linux from the mono site, and also D/L'd the codecs ?  

( or hazard a good guess as to how they work
so you don't have to admit you actually got them offshore ).


some questions would be:
if the codecs are D/L'd, are they the same codecs as normally available online,
possibly offshore, for  the other media apps on linux such as mplayer, Totem, Rhythmbox  etc ?


Would those same MS codecs that would be D/L'd be useful in the linux apps 

such as those mentioned for media or other linux OS apps ?  For better or Worse ?

or are the codecs mono C# runtime vm code only  ? 


Walt........


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What is Moonlight?

Moonlight was built by Novell in collaboration with Microsoft which provided Novell with test suites, specifications, open source code and Media Codecs to create an entirely open sourced Silverlight-compatible implementation for Unix systems. 
Access to licensed Media Codecs (MP3, WMV, VC-1) is provided by Microsoft to Moonlight 1.0 and 2.0 users.  The first time that you access a web site that requires these codecs, Moonlight will prompt you to download the codecs from Microsoft and install those on your system. 
 

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