I was looking through the moonlight mailing list archives the other week and the project seems to be dead on its feet.
As for Netflix, it doesn't work on Linux because the DRM components are only for Silverlight on Windows and Mac. Regards, John Oliver On 17 Jan 2012, at 22:53, easily.remembe...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > From my experience moonlight is useless for watching movies and other > streaming sources because it does not support DRM > > Peter > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Morrissey <morrissey.jam...@gmail.com> > Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:08 > To: UK Ubuntu Talk<ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netflix > > I am not sure about netflix and silverlight, but the open source > alternative for silverlight is called 'moonlight' > (http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight). I tried it for something once > but couldn't get it to work. > > I think, from an old conversation on here, that someone on this list > is actually a developer on the mono project. If i am right, i am sure > they will be able to help more. > > Good luck. > > James. > > On 17 January 2012 22:45, scoundrel50a <scoundrel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Has anybody got this to work in Ubuntu 11.10, I tried but it said I could >> only view it in Windows and Mac......I think it needs Microsoft Silverlight, >> I have heard there is a Linux version of that, but cant find ........anybody >> know? >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
