This question already has answers here: Is there an equivalent of Silverlight? (5 answers) Closed 5 years ago. How do I install Silverlight plugin in Ubuntu? And how to configure browser with Silverlight plugin? Answer You cannot install Silverlight in Ubuntu since it is a proprietary Microsoft plugin that does not work with Linux. If … Read more
I haven’t been able to play videos from here. I tried Moonlight, but it doesn’t show an image, just sound, and sometimes some part of the image, but mostly a black canvass. Thanks. Answer Yes, you can extract the url from the HTML-source and use mplayer: $ mplayer -ao pulse mms://proedvid.stanford.edu/videocontent/knuth/musings/981203/981203-knuth-500.wmv The playback (audio/video) works … Read more
I have tried the following in order to install pipelight-multi so I can watch videos powered by Microsoft Silverlight (e.g HBO Now): sudo apt-get install wine-staging sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install –install-recommends pipelight-multi However, I get the following error: Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Package … Read more
I know that we can use moonlight to play silverlight content on website. However, I know that moonlight can install on latest firefox. However it does not reliably work actually after i follow their procedure to install it again. Moonlight extension not working with new Firefox versions Does anyone able to play silverlight content in … Read more
How I can uninstall and reinstall moonlight? Answer If your browser reports that “moonlight” is “disabled” due to incompatibility, then here is what you need to do: Make a backup copy of .mozilla (/home/your_user_name/.mozilla) before proceeding. This will preserve important bookmarks and other things you might want to consider later. Now delete the .mozilla folder … Read more
I am using Lubuntu 12.04 64bit, stable Chrome and Moonlight plugin. The problem is when I try to load this page: http://ms01.oe3.fm/oe3metafiles/Player/Player.html – It is online radio player for Silverlight. It is probably poorly written, because when the tab with player is focused, CPU load is around 30%. When I focus another tab, CPU load … Read more
I recently installed Fedora 14 on my home PC so I have a dual boot system running windows and linux. I probably would primarily use Linux on that machine as its older and Linux manages its resources MUCH better than Windows does, BUT I’m a bit of a Netflix junky and from what I’ve read … Read more
I know about moonlight but it doesn’t work on an italian web site I need: http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/motogp/full/258461/motogp-di-valencia.html. I’m running chromium browser on ubuntu 11.10, Novell Moonlight – Version: 3.99.0.3. I cannot see a way to solve this problem other that reboot on windows 7, if anybody can help. I wonder if there’s a way to install … Read more
This question already has answers here: Closed 9 years ago. Possible Duplicate: Is there a way to stream Netflix? Has anybody found a workaround to watch Netflix on Ubuntu other than running Windows XP through VirtualBox? At this point my girlfriends fascination with Netflix is the only reason I still use windows for anything. Netflix … Read more
When I try to watch Xfinity/Comcast videos, the actual video does not load. I have installed Flash, then installed Pipelight and enabled Silverlight, Flash, Shockwave, and Unity3d. Other Silverlight and Flash video sources work just fine, including Youtube, Amazon, and Netflix. I get the commercial, then the player usually loads up (sometimes there’s a hang … Read more
