Silverlight codec overrun

But thinking about my primary obsession, multimedia codecs— how will Moonlight cope with decoding the aforementioned formats? The project status page recommends developers and early adopters download and install a particular SVN revision of FFmpeg. I have read some rumblings about how Microsoft will release binary codecs that will only be allowed to run with browser plugins. I should probably mention that I help develop a program that operates in a similar space as Silverlight.

Posted in Multimedia PressWatch 11 Comments ». Microsoft will make the codecs for video and audio available to users of Moonlight from their web site. The codecs will be binary codecs, and they will only be licensed for use with Moonlight on a web browser sorry, those are the rules for the Media codecs[1]. Per my reading of the MoonLight source code, there is currently no code for interfacing to the codecs.

Why should somebody interested in these codecs? All of them could be done without Silverlight. You are correct pointing out that Moonlight is not ready. What was announced on the 5th was merely that Microsoft and Novell have entered into a collaboration agreement to turn Moonlight into the Silverlight implementation for Unix systems.

Moonlight started as a proof of concept that we could build such a tool using Mono and the standard Linux libraries: Pango, FreeType, Cairo and for media we prototyped things with ffmpeg. The good news is that Silvelright 1. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually.

Related Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled. Audio and video can be decoded outside the runtime and rendered Silverlight allows developers and designers to apply content to a 3D plane. Users can rotate or scale live content in space without writing any additional code. Other effects Silverlight makes it easy to create graphics and then use them to customize controls, such as the look of a scrollbar.

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