NBC Olympics Webcast: Windows and Mac only?

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NBC appears to allow only Windows and Mac clients to their Olympics video section. Does this strike anyone else as ridiculous?

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Have you tried using user-agent switcher with Firefox?

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NBC requires use of Silverlight 2.2 beta, which is unsupported by Linux.

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> NBC requires use of Silverlight 2.2 beta

let me see…is there a possible connection between NBC and Silverlight…

NBC > MSNBC > MS Silverlight

right, little use in writing them and asking to let us use an open standard, or
a competing vendor’s Flash…

–
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark

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I downloaded everything needed and I still can’t get the video to work. I am using a stock intel mac.

Frank

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NYT has a story on this
Olympics Online, With a Hook

For Linux you’d need Mono and Moonlight but “support for Silverlight 2.0 is in pre-Alpha stage”.

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mattm3a <mattm3a@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> expounded:

> NBC requires use of Silverlight 2.2 beta, which is unsupported by Linux.

I noticed that. I tried Silverlight 1 first but it carped at me.

ANother thing I noticed is that at first it carped at me for not using either
IE or Firefox on Windows. As I was using SeaMonkey at the time, I swore at
it. Then I installed Silverlight, and when I went back to that page it told
me my silverlight needed to be newer. So apparently it cares more about
silverlight than the browser strings.

–
Stacatto signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionares, and billionares, baby
These are the days of miracle and wonder
– Boy in the Bubble, Paul Simon

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There is a moonlight (silverlight linux version) from the packman repo. Has anyone tried it?

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I don’t believe moonlight will work…but who knows, I’ve been wrong before…

For those on an Intel Mac, you can install Silverlight…I downloaded the package, extracted with CharlesSoft Pacifist to my desktop. I then opened package contents (right click) and removed the Settings plugins as well as the update mechanism, and all the foreign language support…works well…

I wouldn’t put it on w/o doing this however, as it supposedly calls home a little too often…

Good Luck!

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I watch it on cbc here in Toronto. Doesn’t need a silverlight. Plays well with firefox in linux.