[CALUG] moonlight ( silverlight) plus codecs ?

[Bryan J Smith]

It's absolute junk in my opinion, but that's typical of anything written for .NET instead of Mono.  Understand that is not a criticism of Novell, far from it (Novell has been a key contributor in LibreOffice), but of .NET.  When people write for Mono, things are fine.  But when they write for .NET and then port to Mono, not considering Mono in the first place, then they get the rude awakening.  Silverlight -> Moonlight is more of this non-sense.

Like most people I tap VLC, Mozplugger and rely on its codecs, for my home, personal use.  For corporate use, there are indemnification issues of using such.  So unless its a stream coming down Moonlight, I don't bother.  And for streams coming down Moonlight, it's typically non-functional.  And forget NetFlix, totally non-usable unless you use WINE.  Like many things written for .NET and not Mono, WINE run-time is required for select functionality, because it has to emulate portions of the Windows executive.

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From: Walt Smith <waltechmail at yahoo.com>
To: "calug at unknownlamer.org" <calug at unknownlamer.org>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [CALUG] moonlight ( silverlight) plus codecs ?

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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