System Requirements for Windows Sliverlight

The system requirements for Microsoft Silverlight and associated technologies are listed below.

Windows

§ Operating System: Windows 7,Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2

§ Intel® Pentium® III 450MHz or faster processor (or equivalent)

§ 128MB of RAM

Mac OS

§ Operating System: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11+ (Intel-based) or above

§ Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor

§ 128MB of RAM

Linux

Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight, primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems. In September of 2007, Microsoft and Novell announced a technical collaboration that includes access to Microsoft's test suites for Silverlight and the distribution of a Media Pack for Linux users that will contain licensed media codecs for video and audio.

Up-to-date packages ready to test are available from:

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight

Our supported architectures and operating systems list the platforms that we currently test the binary packages of Moonlight on.

Once you install Moonlight from the above URL to play video or audio, you will be prompted by Moonlight to install the Microsoft Media Pack for Moonlight available from Microsoft.

Alternatively, you can build Moonlight from source code and link against ffmpeg codecs on your own.