Fabio Erculiani
49 lines
2.8 KiB
XML
49 lines
2.8 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
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<pkgmetadata>
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<herd>no-herd</herd>
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<maintainer>
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<email>doctorwhoguy@gmail.com</email>
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</maintainer>
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<longdescription>
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Today we want to present you our latest project Pipelight, which allows to run
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your favorite Silverlight application directly inside your Linux browser. The
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project combines the effort by Erich E. Hoover with a new browser plugin that
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embeds Silverlight directly in any Linux browser supporting the Netscape Plugin
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API (Firefox, Chrome / Chromium, Midori, Opera, …). He worked on a set of Wine
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patches to get Playready DRM protected content working inside Wine and
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afterwards created an Ubuntu package called Netflix Desktop. This package
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allows one to use Silverlight inside a Windows version of Firefox, which works
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as a temporary solution but is not really user-friendly and moreover requires
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Wine to translate all API calls of the browser. To solve this problem we
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created Pipelight.
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Pipelight consists out of two parts: A Linux library which is loaded into the
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browser and a Windows program started in Wine. The Windows program, called
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pluginloader.exe, simply simulates a browser and loads the Silverlight DLLs.
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When you open a page with a Silverlight application the library will send all
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commands from the browser through a pipe to the Windows process and act like a
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bridge between your browser and Silverlight. The used pipes do not have any big
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impact on the speed of the rendered video since all the video and audio data is
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not send through the pipe. Only the initialization parameters and (sometimes)
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the network traffic is send through them. As a user you will not notice anything
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from that "magic" and you can simply use Silverlight the same way as on Windows.
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</longdescription>
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<use>
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<flag name="binary-pluginloader">If enabled, use the upstream binary pluginloader.exe.
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If disabled, compile your own binary; this requires a cross compiler.</flag>
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<flag name="flash">Enable Flash plugin by default.</flag>
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<flag name="foxitpdf">Enable Foxit PDF Reader plugin by default.</flag>
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<flag name="grandstream">Enable Grandstream plugin by default.</flag>
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<flag name="installation-dialogs">If enabled, you will be presented with the installation
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dialogs of the browser plugins when they are downloaded. If disabled, Pipelight
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will install them automatically without user intervention.</flag>
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<flag name="shockwave">Enable Shockwave plugin by default.</flag>
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<flag name="silverlight">Enable Silverlight plugin by default.</flag>
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<flag name="static">Compile a statically linked pluginloader.exe. This has no effect if
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using the upstream binary.</flag>
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<flag name="unity3d">Enable the Unity3D plugin by default.</flag>
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</use>
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</pkgmetadata>
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