Comments on: Windows Media Player on Linux. Really.

By: msian_tux_lover

msian_tux_lover — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:34:33 +0000

Yup it works. I managed to get good video streams from MSNBC.

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:12:51 +0000

@Jonas: thank you for your report !

@pel: right, but it’s not really the language beauty to be the issue. Mono is indeed attracting many Linux developers because it feels nice. No wonder Moonlight feels the same.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:08:13 +0000

Well, it seems to work fine after my admittedly limited test. To be honest, I’ve never been much of a fan of streaming video so I’ve never really bothered to fine-tune other plugins before. That being said, when I’ve tried other plugins in the past there was always something of a disappointment present. They never seemed to work quite right in all circumstances.

That may turn out to be the case here too (only time will tell) but right now it feels like this is the most hassle-free one.

By: pel

pel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:28:13 +0000

I actually find the silverlight framework sort of beautiful.
Simple, well abstracted, fits in a browser.

Not much of a M$ fan though, but the CS dude in me can’t help finding it attractive.