VoD and Silverlight?

[pi-gourmet]

Dear all,

Maybe that was not the intension of Microsoft but I was just wondering if someone has already some information if it is possible to use VoD services (Silverlight based) with the raspberry 2 and windows 10?

Is it powerful enough? Is an additional Codec license required?

Thanks in advance for sharing your information.

Pi-Gourmet

[ame]

Silverlight is dead. Anyone who adopted it got burned (and deserved it). Adopting it now, or even just attempting to use it would be foolish.

[ObliviousOne]

Well, I wouldn't say it's dead. Since two of the top VoD providers use it to deliver content. Both NetFlix and Amazon Prime require Silverlight. So for the PI to support it would enable the use of those services. I think that is more the spirit of the question. I don't know if either company is moving away from using it.

[ame]

From Wikipedia:

In 2013, Microsoft announced that they had ceased development of Silverlight except for patches and bugfixes. Microsoft announced the end of life of Silverlight 5 in 2012. Silverlight is no longer supported in Chrome on OS X, while support for Silverlight in Chrome on all other operating systems will be disabled by default in April 2015 and removed completely in September 2015. Microsoft has set the support end date for Silverlight 5 to be October 2021.

Since it is not Open Source it will not appear in the Pi (and Moonlight is a sad joke).

This is standard Microsoft MO. Produce a competing version of something that is popular and use it to fragment the market. Once it has done its job, kill it.

We can see examples of that even today.

[ObliviousOne]

From Wikipedia:

In 2013, Microsoft announced that they had ceased development of Silverlight except for patches and bugfixes. Microsoft announced the end of life of Silverlight 5 in 2012. Silverlight is no longer supported in Chrome on OS X, while support for Silverlight in Chrome on all other operating systems will be disabled by default in April 2015 and removed completely in September 2015. Microsoft has set the support end date for Silverlight 5 to be October 2021.

Since it is not Open Source it will not appear in the Pi (and Moonlight is a sad joke).

This is standard Microsoft MO. Produce a competing version of something that is popular and use it to fragment the market. Once it has done its job, kill it.

We can see examples of that even today.

Ah, thanks for the information =3. That is truly irritating, that it has no future support. (not that I care much for it I just want to use those streaming services)

[cyrano]

Netflix supports HTML5 from Win 8.1/IE11 and OSX 10.10...

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/15 ... amatically

I suppose the few others that use SL will follow too, soon, or be obsoleted. If Flash now dies too, I'll be celebrating