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®, Android™, Microsoft Surface™/Windows RT, and BlackBerry® mobile devices and tablets.

Before you begin, here are some things to consider:

Chrome no longer supports NPAPI plugins. As a result, WMV playback no longer works in Chrome.
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.

Windows requirements

Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista
Microsoft Internet Explorer® 8.0 or later (including Internet Explorer 10 and 11 on Windows 8), Firefox®, Google™ Chrome, or Microsoft Edge
Windows Media® Player 9.0 or later for Windows Media playback in Internet Explorer
Adobe® Flash for Smooth Streaming playback in Chrome
Microsoft Silverlight® 5 or Adobe Flash for Smooth Streaming playback in other browsers
Broadband Internet or Wi-Fi connection

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Mac requirements

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later
Safari™, Firefox, or Chrome
Adobe Flash for Smooth Streaming playback in Chrome
Microsoft Silverlight 5 or Adobe Flash for Smooth Streaming playback in other browsers
Broadband Internet or Wi-Fi connection

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Linux requirements (on-demand playback only)

OpenSUSE® or Ubuntu® with the following:

FFmpeg plugin
Chromium web browser

Broadband Internet or Wi-Fi connection

Note: 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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