oyvindhauge.com » Moonlight http://www.oyvindhauge.com/blog Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:28:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Olypics: NRK, Linux, Firefox, and Silverlight/Moonlight http://www.oyvindhauge.com/blog/2010/02/15/the-olypics-nrk-linux-firefox-and-silverlightmoonlight/ http://www.oyvindhauge.com/blog/2010/02/15/the-olypics-nrk-linux-firefox-and-silverlightmoonlight/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:05:16 +0000 Øyvind Hauge http://oyvindhauge.com/blog/?p=1317 I have previously written about my efforts to see tv (NRK) over the Internet on Linux. While working on my thesis I had to watch a bit of the Olympics (as a distraction). Luckily, NRK streams most of the events over the Internet. Unfortunately, they have decided to use Silverlight version 3 to stream content from the Olympics.

This does not work right out of the box with Ubuntu. Thanks to Anders S. Lund I found the solution, which was to install an alpha version of Moonlight:

  1. Remove the Firefox-VLC plugin: “sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-vlc”
  2. Remove previous versions of Moonlght: In Firefox goto Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions
  3. Download the most recent version of Moonlight: http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx
  4. In case of sluggish performance, turn of all effects by closing the browser and using the following command: “MOONLIGHT_OVERRIDES=effects=no firefox“

See the following link for more information/troubleshooting.

MOONLIGHT_OVERRIDES=effects=no firefox
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