Presidential Inauguration in Silverlight and Moonlight (Channel 9)

Presidential Inauguration in Silverlight and Moonlight

Posted: Jan 23, 2009 at 2:57 PM

By: Adam Kinney

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This week during the Presidential Inauguration, Silverlight was used by both CBS and the official Presidential Inauguration Committee site to stream the event live. Steven Woodward and Ben Waggoner tell the story of how the projects came together, including the last minute push to add a Moonlight player to the PIC site as an alternative experience for Linux and PowerPC Mac users.

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ZippyV Fired Up

Jan 24, 2009 at 12:55 PM

As you can see, the Moonlight player didn't really work.
kunduZ

Jan 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM

in worked on my system and this person has a picture to prove it: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NXe-USYSZmU/SXXyCokxHkI/AAAAAAAABP4/NdeaP7HfUtE/s1600-h/god_save_america.png%20"> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NXe-USYSZmU/SXXyCokxHkI/AAAAAAAABP4/NdeaP7HfUtE/s1600-h/god_save_america.png

maybe there was something wrong with your install, maybe a wrong version of firefox? i used firefox 3 and i clicked "yes" when asked if i wanted to install the audio/video codecs
ZippyV Fired Up

Jan 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

There was nothing wrong with my install.
kunduZ

Jan 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM

i use firefox3 in pclinuxos ..i went to moonlight website, downloaded moonlight plugin ..i then went to that webpage and i was asked if i wanted to install microsoft codecs ..i said yes and i think i was asked to restart firefox ..i restarted it, went back to the website and i the video played, with sound ..

so ..maybe it worked on some people and it didnt work on others

check out this thread at miguel blog http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jan-20.html

somebody said that it worked on fedora 9 but only showed "loading" on fedora10 ..are you running fedora10? what distro are you running? according to others ..it worked on ubuntu too
ZippyV Fired Up

Jan 25, 2009 at 3:19 AM

Was running Ubuntu 8.10 x64.
AdamKinney Agent of Change

Jan 26, 2009 at 11:18 AM

There is a lot of discussion available in Miguel's comments where some have mentioned it working on Ubuntu 8.10 (not specifically x64). Judging by the Moonlight Supported Platforms page though, the highest support version is Ubuntu 8.04 x86. I'll see if I can learn more specific details.
AdamKinney Agent of Change

Jan 26, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Oops, I should have added a link to the on-demand version in this post... *update*

http://cbs11tv.com/inaugurationplayer/default.htm