Susbstitute For Microsoft Silverlight

tb75252 · 06-25-2011, 05:46 PM

Using Ubuntu 11.04, 32-bit, and Firefox 5.0 (for Ubuntu).

I wanted to watch an oline video but was getting an error message stating that Microsoft Silverlight was needed.

So, I installed moonlight-plugin-mozilla (which also installed libmoon and moonlight-plugin-core). But now when I click on the start button I can see for a couple of seconds a wheel spinning in a clockwise direction, then it disappears and nothing else happens.

I tried to install the latest version of Moonlight (v. 3.99.0.3) available at http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx, but it is not compatible with Firefox 5.

The video is available at:
http://ticinonews.ch/articolovideo.a...329&rubrica=64
The site is in Italian, but the video is easily found right below the heading "Speciale Matrioska". The video plays just fine with Microsoft Windows XP.

Is there anything else that needs to be installed in Ubuntu?

MS3FGX · 06-25-2011, 06:29 PM

Does this video/site have DRM? Moonlight does not play DRM-protected video streams.

tb75252 · 06-25-2011, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MS3FGX

Does this video/site have DRM? Moonlight does not play DRM-protected video streams.

I don't know... Let's assume that the video is protected by DRM, is there anything that I can install in order to play it?

John VV · 06-25-2011, 08:24 PM

play it on Windows 7 or vista
MS themselves is giving up on silverlight ( R.I.P.)

Moonlight in mono has only been at silverlight1or 2 level ( if that) and not silverlight4 and 5 like on win7
it ?might? work

so if you need silverlight then run Windows7

MS3FGX · 06-25-2011, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tb75252

I don't know... Let's assume that the video is protected by DRM, is there anything that I can install in order to play it?

As John says, you don't. There is currently no way to play Silverlight DRM'd video streams in Linux. You will need to play it from Windows (or at least, a Windows VM running on Linux).

Again, that is assuming that the video is indeed protected by DRM. Do any other Silverlight-powered sites work for you?

tb75252 · 06-27-2011, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MS3FGX

Do any other Silverlight-powered sites work for you?

This is the first Silverlight site that I've come across, so I don't know.

I guess I will have to resort to Windows...

felixq78 · 07-02-2011, 10:54 AM

We can trust Microsoft to throw a spanner in the works with their intentionally incompatible software. Simply using their operating system isn't the answer, that's why they do it. I'd rather go without than to comply with Microsoft.