Player Requirements

Sonic Foundry recommends the following system requirements for the best presentation viewing experience with Mediasite Player on Microsoft® Windows, Apple® Mac® OS, Linux® as well as iPad® , iPhone®/iPod®, Blackberry®, and Android™ mobile devices.

Before you begin, here are some things to consider:

• Playback speed control is only supported on some playback platforms, depending on the player layout, browser type and media playback element.
• If you are unable to play the presentation, contact your Mediasite administrator to make sure that the appropriate media type is available and supported for your playback platform. Additionally, have your Mediasite administrator verify HTTP streaming is enabled on the windows media server on port 80.
• Remember to configure pop-up blockers to allow site pop-ups. Otherwise, presentations will not appear. Also, if you are not using Internet Explorer as your browser on Windows, there are additional considerations.

• Microsoft Windows 2008 (requires the Desktop Experience), Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003
• Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later, Firefox® 3.6 or later, or Google™ Chrome
• Windows Media® Player 9.0 or later
• Microsoft Silverlight® 5.0
• Broadband Internet connection

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• Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
• Apple Safari™ 2.0.4 or later or Firefox 3.6 or later
• Microsoft Silverlight 5.0
• Broadband Internet connection

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• SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, openSUSE® 11.0 or later, Ubuntu® 8.04, or Fedora® Core 9
• Firefox 2.0 or 3.0 depending on Linux operating system
• Moonlight™1.0. Moonlight 1.0 supports the operating systems and platforms listed here.
• Microsoft Media Pack for Moonlight
• Broadband Internet connection

Notes:

• Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems. For more information about Moonlight go here.
• Mediasite will no longer support playback of Windows Media Format on the Linux platform. Instead, Mediasite will support on-demand presentation playback of H.264 content packaged as MP4. You will need to install the codecs required for H.264 content playback. In addition, you must use a browser that supports H.264 codecs with the HTML5 media element. For more information, go here.

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• iPad, iPad2, or iPad3
• iOS 4.3 or later
• Apple Mobile Safari™
• Wi-Fi or cellular data connection (3G or higher)

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• iPhone 4.0 or later, iPod Touch 4th generation or later
• iOS 4.3 or later
• Apple Mobile Safari
• Mediasite iPhone/iPod app (free download available from the Apple app store)
• Wi-Fi connection

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• Blackberry devices running Blackberry OS 7.0 or later
• Playbooks devices running QNX
• Blackberry browser
• Wi-Fi or cellular data connection (3G or higher)

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• Android™ 4.0 or later
• Android browser
• Wi-Fi or cellular data connection (3G or higher)

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To view Mediasite presentations using Firefox over Windows Vista or Windows XP:

• Use the ActiveX Plug-in you are prompted to download when you first attempt to view a presentation.


OR


• Copy the Windows XP plug-in dlls to your machine following these instructions.

If you are having problems and your computer meets the system requirements, visit Sonic Foundry's Troubleshooting Mediasite Playback web resource for tips on troubleshooting your computer and more information on Player features.

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