Moonshine brings Windows Media to Linux

Feb 17, 2009, 02:02 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

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"Unfortunately, since you could only use it to get to content hidden in Silverlight streams, that didn’t seem to matter much. Now, it does matter.

"It matters because Aaron Bockover has created Moonshine, a program that encapsulates any WMV or WMA content into a Silverlight container so you can view or listen to this content from your Firefox browser. Neat!"

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