Comments on: Silverlight 3, IIS Media Services 3.0, Olympics 2010 – Wow, It Truly Is March Madness!

By: Alex Zambelli

Alex Zambelli — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:23:14 +0000

Zyonin & Wayne,

The Novell team has pretty much been working round the clock to get Moonlight 3.0 features up to speed in time for the Olympics. They just released Moonlight 3.0 Preview 2 the other day:
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight/Preview#Preview_2
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight/OlympicsPlayerIssues

Please check it out; I really hope it works for you. Note that the Novell team recommends Firefox 3.7 for best performance (3.7a1pre specifically).

By: Zyonin (Ken R.)

Zyonin (Ken R.) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:59:39 +0000

I am in the same boat as Wayne and “Anonymous”, shut out of Olympic video sites due to the lack of Moonlight support. I don’t care what the broadcaster’s excuses for using Silverlight 3 are, I just know that a group of web users are shut out by the “Silverlight Wall” due to their OS. Some of us don’t have a choice in OS due to economic reasons. Should we pirate Windows just so we can watch the Olympics?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:19:50 +0000

The olympics are days away and there is no moonlight support for the various video sites. Once again the critics are proven correct, Moonlight will forever be playing catchup, perpetually keeping Linux and FreeBSD users from being able to actually view any media online. Congratulations Microsoft, you’ve screwed over another generation of web technology.

By: Alex Zambelli

Alex Zambelli — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:08:06 +0000

Dear Anonymous,

1. Let’s be clear: this applies only to NBC’s coverage of the Olympics in the U.S. The International Olympics Committee sells Olympics broadcast rights per country, so every country’s official Olympics broadcaster can choose whichever RIA technology they want.

2. While I understand the beauty and simplicity of just providing vanilla video stream URLs to users, that’s not what the content providers are asking for. They want rich experiences and we try to provide them with a platform for doing so. Remember, at the end of the day they’re the ones spending money on content production – so ultimately it’s rightfully their choice how they wish to recoup those expenses. If they thought vanilla URLs could make them more money, I’m sure that’s what they’d be doing.

3. NBC Olympics 2008 videos worked just fine for Mac users. That’s non-Windows, isn’t it? Oh, and before you say “But Linux…”, I will point out that NBC Vancouver Olympics experience will be built on Silverlight 3, and there’s a very good chance that Novell will have the Linux-based Moonlight 3.0 ready by February 2010. So I wouldn’t entirely rule out Linux support either.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:16:14 +0000

Silverlight for 2010 Olympics video? Goodie! Since in 2008 the same decision was so kind to non-Windows users.

What’s that? Ah, you want people to have a rich Web2.0 experience. Well, if the advertisers want to see the inside of my wallet, I’ll just have the vanilla video stream URLs. Sadly, with realistic pessimism, I predict those won’t be directly available. Alex, I hope you guys prove me wrong…

kthxby

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