[nmglug] city of santa fe videos using silverlight (ugh)

[Satsangat Khalsa]

We should forward this to the Mac users, also,  I don't think they would be
agreeable to a win only offering.
There are lot of them, and they are active.


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Mark Galassi <mark at galassi.org> wrote:

>
> Amigos, yesterday I ran in to the guy who puts up the video for the city
> of Santa Fe and I mentioned that this page:
>
> http://www.santafenm.gov/video_on_demand
>
> offers videos in a proprietary format called Silverlight which is not
> available for GNU/Linux users.  There was some attempt way back to write
> a Mono-based replacement, but "just clicking" goes nowhere and I'm
> guessing it would not really work -- my attempts way back didn't work.
>
> The guy aggressively commented that "it works universally" to which I
> said "it certainly doesn't work universally, and you should be using a
> format that is not out of a vendor's brochure".
>
> Does anyone feel like taking 40 seconds to write an email to the city's
> "general media inquiries" pointing out
>
> (a) that this doesn't work for you because you run a GNU/Linux system,
>
> and
>
> (b) (if you know about video stuff) proposing a straightforward link
> they could put next to the silverlight link that would allow the rest of
> us to see it in a standards-compliant manner?
>
> The contact info is at this page:
>
> http://www.santafenm.gov/media_resources
>
> and the "general media inquiries" email address is
>
> Jodi McGinnis Porter <jmporter at santafenm.gov>
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