(05-24-2014, 02:47 AM)Teddy5090 link Wrote: Microsoft Silverlight is sort of popular. Primary uses are for Amazon Prime members (For TV Shows / Movies) or a regular users of Netflix. I am not sure of anything else that uses Silverlight.
Hello!
If I had a low-resource PC with XP and wanted to have Linux Lite, I'd set it up as a 'dual boot', watch Netflix in XP, and do everything else in LL. As I have stated previously, running Netflix, Silverlight, and WINE is just too much drag on a system unless you have 2 GB RAM+ for 32-bit, and 4 GB RAM for 64-bit. At that point, you might as well just run Windows 7.
What's making Silverlight more and more popular is that you get better video performance at low bandwidths than over Flash, but the biggest reason is that none of the Flash video downloaders can do anything with Silverlight video, and, short of screen capture, no one has developed a way to circumvent this.
AFAIK, Silverlight video comes to you in bits and pieces, then Silverlight reassembles it all into something watchable at the distant end. It's a miracle it even works in XP...
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