Moonlight 4.0 - Silverlight for Linux Preview
Moonlight has skipped version 3.0, jumping from 2.4 directly to 4.0. Currently a beta preview, Moonlight 4.0 lets users leverage the entire Silverlight 3.0 API and some portions of the Silverlight 4 API. It has also been enhanced to run both inside the browser - Firefox 3.0-4.x and Google Chrome – and outside the browser in a sandbox or full-trust mode with the mopen command.
Some of the new features available in Moonlight 4.0 Preview 1 are:
- GPU-accelerated graphics; Gallium3D is used on systems without adequate hardware acceleration
- All Silverlight 3D transformations are supported
- Supports shaders such as pre-defined blur, drop shadow effects, and user-defined shaders
- A new abstraction layer has been introduced, called PAL, preparing the way to port Moonlight easier to other platforms with a different operating system, windowing and messaging system, and hardware configuration
- Supports V4L2 video capture with YUYV or YUV420 pixel format
- Developer tools: FPS display, disable GPU use, track exposed regions or clipping rectangles, show textbox bounds, and others
- New codecs from Microsoft Windows Media Pack: H.264 and AAC
- Better smooth streaming
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