- Posted by christhi on January 20, 2009
The official streaming feed of Barak Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Committee will be using Silverlight 2!! This news was great for SilverLight 2.0 users (Mac on Intel and Windows) howerver using managed code in the player originally left out Linux users of the Moonlight 1.0 beta, as well as PowerPC Mac users. To support the widest platform possible Microsoft has teamed up with the Moonlight team at Novell and they've created a Silverlight 1.0 version of the player that works great in both Moonlight and PowerPC Macs. The only limitation is that the SL1 player can only produce a 500 Kbps stream and lacks managed code however the experience should be close to those running SL2.
The Silverlight 1.0 compatible player is low live at:
http://www.pic2009.org/page/content/linuxplayer
Note that this player is only for Silverlight 1.0 and doesn't work with Internet Explorer. The Silverlight 2.0 player for Windows or Intel Mac is at:
http://www.pic2009.org/page/content/live