Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Novell Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Novell http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/novell Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/novell en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:14:50 GMT Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:14:50 GMT Rev9 3 1 25 First Moonlight 2.0 Preview Out - with Smooth Streaming Novell has just released the first Moonlight 2.0 Preview, dubbed Moonlight 1.9. It adds a bunch of new Silverlight 2 features, and offers compatibility with many more sites. Near and dear to my heart, it supports Smooth Streaming. Deep Zoom is also working.

The mono team has tons of info, so here’s a link list.

They’re hard at work finishing Silverlight 2 support, and have already started adding some Silverlight 3 features, including (from Chris’s link above):

  • Easing functions for animations, including user-supplied ones.
  • SaveFileDialog, a safe way to allow users to save content from Silverlight applications
  • MultiScaleImage (the heart of Deep zoom) API additions (e.g. the AllowDownloading property).
  • MediaStreamSource now supports PCM audio data, RGBA and YV12 video data.  This along with other extensions makes it very easy to write codecs entirely in managed code, that you can then distribute with your xap.
  • WriteableBitmap is supported.

I’m particularly excited abut the Raw AV support being there, as it opens up a whole world of media format extensibility.

Anyway, great stuff guys! I’m looking forward to a final release and being able to have Moonlight and Silverlight compatibility be something that “just works.”

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/First-Moonlight-20-Preview-Out-ndash-with-Smooth-Streaming Novell has just released the first Moonlight 2.0 Preview, dubbed Moonlight 1.9. It adds a bunch of new Silverlight 2 features, and offers compatibility with many more sites. Near and dear to my heart, it supports Smooth Streaming. Deep Zoom is also working.The mono team has tons of info, so here’s a link list.Miguel de Icaza has a detailed blog post Chris Toshok has some great details as well. Moonlight 1.9 Release Notes The test sites Moonlight targets, with the status of each Silverlight/Moonlight development with the Mac OS X MonoDevelop They’re hard at work finishing Silverlight 2 support, and have already started adding some Silverlight 3 features, including (from Chris’s link above):Easing functions for animations, including user-supplied ones. SaveFileDialog, a safe way to allow users to save content from Silverlight applications MultiScaleImage (the heart of Deep zoom) API additions (e.g. the AllowDownloading property). MediaStreamSource now supports PCM audio data, RGBA and YV12 video data.  This along with other extensions makes it very easy to write codecs entirely in managed code, that you can then distribute with your xap. WriteableBitmap is supported. I’m particularly excited abut the Raw AV support being there, as it opens up a whole world of media format extensibility.Anyway, great stuff guys! I’m looking forward to a final release and being able to have Moonlight and Silverlight compatibility be something that “just works.” http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/First-Moonlight-20-Preview-Out-ndash-with-Smooth-Streaming Thu, 07 May 2009 21:27:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/First-Moonlight-20-Preview-Out-ndash-with-Smooth-Streaming Ben Waggoner Ben Waggoner 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/First-Moonlight-20-Preview-Out-ndash-with-Smooth-Streaming/RSS Deep Zoom IIS Mono Moonlight Silverlight Silverlight 3 Smooth Streaming Novell On Channel 9 with Steven and Adam, talking inauguration Adam Kinney last night and shot a Channel 9 piece about the inauguration and Silverlight, both the Presidential Inauguration Commmittee I blogged about earlier, and the CBS converage that used Silverlight for the user interface and Move Networks for the underlying video.

It was shot on HDV, and I'm going to try and get a copy of the source and do a HDV-to-Silverlight tutorial.

It came out pretty well. I spoke relatively slowly and calmly (albeit from an overcaffinated Jim Henson at 78 rpm baseline).

I did mistate one thing near the end - it was actually Monday (the day before the inauguration) that we launched the effort. Just imagine what we could have done if we'd had the whole weekend!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/On-Channel-9-with-Steven-and-Adam-talking-inauguration Steven Woodward and I sat down with Adam Kinney last night and shot a Channel 9 piece about the inauguration and Silverlight, both the Presidential Inauguration Commmittee I blogged about earlier, and the CBS converage that used Silverlight for the user interface and Move Networks for the underlying video.It was shot on HDV, and I'm going to try and get a copy of the source and do a HDV-to-Silverlight tutorial.It came out pretty well. I spoke relatively slowly and calmly (albeit from an overcaffinated Jim Henson at 78 rpm baseline).I did mistate one thing near the end - it was actually Monday (the day before the inauguration) that we launched the effort. Just imagine what we could have done if we'd had the whole weekend! http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/On-Channel-9-with-Steven-and-Adam-talking-inauguration Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:17:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/On-Channel-9-with-Steven-and-Adam-talking-inauguration Ben Waggoner Ben Waggoner 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/On-Channel-9-with-Steven-and-Adam-talking-inauguration/RSS Moonlight Silverlight Novell Barak Obama Move Networks CBS Moonlight 1.0 beta 1 is out Moonlight is a GPL'ed open source implementation of Silverlight, created by the Mono team at Novell. While it's a Novell project, we're helping them out, and I'm excited at the progress that they've made, and that we'll have a free software playback option for Silverlight.

And thus, the beta 1 of Moonlight 1.0 is now available. Moonlight 1.0 maps to Silverlight 1.0, so you've got good XAML support. But there's no .NET bytecode support, so logic takes places inside the browser's JavaScript engine. Beta 1 also includes support for the "Microsoft Media Pack" described here. Moonlight will automatically offer to download it the first time you hit a media file. Microsoft covers the patent licensing for the included codecs.

Here's a list of supported sites. I imagine most of my demo projects up on Silverlight Streaming should work, as they're all Silverlight 1.0 compatible at this point. Someone who gets this installed, let me know (my personal lameness documented below).

Ars Technica also has a good article about beta 1. It contains plenty of screen shots and such, which I have once again failed to provide due to my lamentable lack of Linux-fu.

Anyway, huzzah to the Moonlight team. I can't wait for the final release of Moonlight 1.0 and the first beta of Moonlight 2.0.

 

(Yes I did try to install Ubuntu, but as with every attempt I've made to run Linux in the last five years, I quickly got stymied by video driver issues. While I got basic display working, I was using my backup Barcelona box, which has my beloved but ancient LaCie ElectronBlu 22: CRT monitor and a cheapo 1280x1024 LCD. Out of the box, it wouldn't let me run the main monitor at more than the small displays resolution or (more painfully) refresh rate. I tried to fix it until I got to the "type sudo..." phase. I bumped into Miguel de Icaza himself at an event last week (we had a fun chat about GPU compositing), who tells me that the new OpenSUSE 11.1 has a nice GUI configuration utility that should fix the issue.)

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/Moonlight-10-beta-1-is-out Moonlight is a GPL'ed open source implementation of Silverlight, created by the Mono team at Novell. While it's a Novell project, we're helping them out, and I'm excited at the progress that they've made, and that we'll have a free software playback option for Silverlight.And thus, the beta 1 of Moonlight 1.0 is now available. Moonlight 1.0 maps to Silverlight 1.0, so you've got good XAML support. But there's no .NET bytecode support, so logic takes places inside the browser's JavaScript engine. Beta 1 also includes support for the "Microsoft Media Pack" described here. Moonlight will automatically offer to download it the first time you hit a media file. Microsoft covers the patent licensing for the included codecs.Here's a list of supported sites. I imagine most of my demo projects up on Silverlight Streaming should work, as they're all Silverlight 1.0 compatible at this point. Someone who gets this installed, let me know (my personal lameness documented below).Ars Technica also has a good article about beta 1. It contains plenty of screen shots and such, which I have once again failed to provide due to my lamentable lack of Linux-fu.Anyway, huzzah to the Moonlight team. I can't wait for the final release of Moonlight 1.0 and the first beta of Moonlight 2.0. (Yes I did try to install Ubuntu, but as with every attempt I've made to run Linux in the last five years, I quickly got stymied by video driver issues. While I got basic display working, I was using my backup Barcelona box, which has my beloved but ancient LaCie ElectronBlu 22: CRT monitor and a cheapo 1280x1024 LCD. Out of the box, it wouldn't let me run the main monitor at more than the small displays resolution or (more painfully) refresh rate. I tried to fix it until I got to the "type sudo..." phase. I bumped into Miguel de Icaza himself at an event last week (we had a fun chat about GPU compositing), who tells me that the new OpenSUSE 11.1 has a nice GUI configuration utility t http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/Moonlight-10-beta-1-is-out Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:35:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/Moonlight-10-beta-1-is-out Ben Waggoner Ben Waggoner 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/Moonlight-10-beta-1-is-out/RSS Miguel de Icaza Mono Moonlight Silverlight Novell