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haukew

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From: Hamburg, Germany

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Watching Silverlight-Movies with arch

Hi!
I'd really love to watch these lectures by Richard Feynman:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/

but they're (of course) encoded with silverlight. I tried two ways to install silverlight, installing it with Pacman ( pacman -S moonlight - it's in community) and installing the plugin right into firefox from here: http://go-mono.com/moonlight/#instructions

Both didn't work...I still get this warning saying "your browser is not supported for silverlight"

Has anyone yet made this work?

Thanks in advance, Hauke

Ghost1227

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Re: Watching Silverlight-Movies with arch

Problem might be that linux is on moonlight 1.0 and silverlight is currently on 2.0

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wonder

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Re: Watching Silverlight-Movies with arch

we had problems compiling silverigh2.0 support in moolight. i didn't care to much about it and didn't search for a fix

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doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

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Re: Watching Silverlight-Movies with arch

I'm running Moonlight 1.9.5 (supposed to be compatible with 2.0, works with some other stuff) and it won't even let me try to open it. When I use UserAgent Switcher it loads Moonlight but it just hangs at "Loading Data" If you wanna try it for yourself (it's at 1.9.6 now): http://go-mono.com/moonlight-preview/ and you'll need this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

Last edited by doorknob60 (2009-07-16 22:41:23)

haukew

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-25

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Re: Watching Silverlight-Movies with arch

Hmkay..i see, so guess i'll have to wait till someone...converts...the lectures... Oh, by the way, i tried this on Windows7 (i got a evaluation copy running inside virtual box) and it does what you describe (stop at "loading data") in firefox but works - slow and choppy but it works - in IE8.

Last edited by haukew (2009-07-17 00:44:01)