Sky Player Moonlight Silverlight

arubin · 03-13-2011, 05:30 AM

Has anyone managed to get the moonlight extension which enables one to watch Sky TV working in slackware? I have the extensions for firefox and chrome but all I get is a blank screen.

Alan

acid_kewpie · 03-13-2011, 07:25 AM

Nope, I've certainly never heard any success stories. here's something... I'm currently designing and building a new infrastructure for skyplayer, maybe that makes me famous... Given that it doesn't work on chrome on windows yet, I can't imagine it being able to work without the real silver light, there's a hell of a lot of drm involved, and i'm not sure if it's be legal to code that side of things.

arubin · 03-13-2011, 07:50 AM

Odd because there is a linux extension so someone ought to have it working with some distro!

T3slider · 03-13-2011, 01:58 PM

Moonlight is always 1.5 versions out of date compared to Silverlight since it really has no support from Microsoft. Whether it works or not is generally hit or miss, and I don't think there is any distro-specific tuning to be done...if it works, it works. If not, then I think all you can do is wait for Moonlight to get a version bump and hope that does something...

acid_kewpie · 03-13-2011, 02:03 PM

As I thought, Moonlight officially has no DRM support in it - http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight/SecurityStatus In case you were wondering, that was the only reason Silverlight was used over Flash, as at the point of beginning development, Flash had no / insufficient DRM support, so was not an option.

arubin · 03-13-2011, 03:26 PM

Thanks then. I had thought of trying to compile it myself but it seems that it would not get me anywhere.