anyone ever use moonlight successfully

DenverD · January 29, 2011, 3:14pm

my local TV broadcasts on the web in Silverlight…i’ve never been
able to use Novell’s Moonlight to what that TV or for anything useful…

i’m looking for anyone who can watch any of the free/gratis offerings
on this page: <http://sputnik.tv2.dk/free/?bund>

and, hope they can tell me with what Linux only software they did
that…here, with a fresh 11.3 install of last week i get an unending
download symbol and "Getting “[show name]” (in danish)…

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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5
“release 1”, Thunderbird3.0.11,]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

martin_helm · January 29, 2011, 6:01pm

DenverD wrote:

> my local TV broadcasts on the web in Silverlight…i’ve never been
> able to use Novell’s Moonlight to what that TV or for anything useful…
>
> i’m looking for anyone who can watch any of the free/gratis offerings
> on this page: <http://sputnik.tv2.dk/free/?bund>
>
> and, hope they can tell me with what Linux only software they did
> that…here, with a fresh 11.3 install of last week i get an unending
> download symbol and "Getting “[show name]” (in danish)…
>
Works for me
Firefox 3.6.13
Moonlight plugin 2.99.0.10

It asked before to download the codecs which I accepted and restarted
firefox. After that it works.

DenverD · January 30, 2011, 1:49pm

> Moonlight plugin 2.99.0.10

hmmmm i’m running the same firefox, but with a new 11.3 and KDE 4.5.5
install i’m showing libmoonloader.so as 3.0.40818.0, i’ll investigate
downgrading…thanks…

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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5
“release 1”, Thunderbird3.0.11,]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

DenverD · January 30, 2011, 1:57pm

On 01/29/2011 06:01 PM, martin_helm wrote:
> Moonlight plugin 2.99.0.10

wait a second! where and how did you come up with that number…

was it in YaST software management ?
in Firefox about:plugins ?

or where?

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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5
“release 1”, Thunderbird3.0.11,]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

martin_helm · January 30, 2011, 4:17pm

DenverD wrote:

>> Moonlight plugin 2.99.0.10
>
> hmmmm i’m running the same firefox, but with a new 11.3 and KDE 4.5.5
> install i’m showing libmoonloader.so as 3.0.40818.0, i’ll investigate
> downgrading…thanks…
>
Sorry for the late reply.
The number is from the “addon’s” menu entry. I did not install moonlight via
yast but I am testing the version from for some time now (but not in an
intensive way)
http://go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx

I cannot really say how good or stable the prerelease is since I rarely use
it (installed a slightly older prerelease version for the olympics). I just
tested two videos from the link you posted and it worked.
But I also noticed with some videos I checked some time ago (I forgot the
link, it was nothing very special, think it was something from BBC but can
be wrong) that sometimes firefox crashes and when trying it a second time it
did not crash.

vazhavandan · January 30, 2011, 7:33pm

That codec agreement looked scary Why the hell should there be an agreement to download codecs

martin_helm · January 30, 2011, 10:37pm

vazhavandan wrote:

>
> That codec agreement looked scary Why the hell should there be an
> agreement to download codecs
>
>
Because the codecs are proprietary, similar to using acrobat reader or flash
player or divx.
But I also do not like that.