Comments on: Moonshine brings Windows Media to Linux

By: jstedfast

jstedfast — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:53:04 +0000

cj100570: Please, please, please submit bug reports to us. We’ve had a handful of people say they get nothing but crashes but not one of them have reported their problem to us and we are unable to reproduce the problems on any Linux distribution we’ve tried (Ubuntu 8.04 & 8.10, Fedora 9 & 10, SLED10, openSUSE 11.0 & 11.1, gOS 3.1 and a number of others).

We really want to make the best possible user experience that we can for everyone no matter what distro they use but we need users to tell us when they encounter problems and to give us as much info as they can so that we can fix them.

Thanks,

Jeffrey Stedfast (Moonlight developer)

By: sjvn

sjvn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:01:36 +0000

Well, it’s working fine for me on openSUSE, MEPIS, and Fedora. But, if it doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t work for you. I know Bockover is working hard to improve it–too hard if you listen to Miguel! –so I suspect it will run on most Linux distributions soon.

As to why. while Flash is #1, this particular program doesn’t just let you play Silverlight, it also lets you play all Windows Media, and there is a lot of that on the Internet.

Steven

By: cj100570

cj100570 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:19:10 +0000

I installed the plugin out of curiosity and it does nothing but crash. I honestly don’t see the usefulness of it. Flash is the defacto standard and I see Silverlight going the way of the Dodo.