Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
- Posted: Sep 11, 2007 at 11:41 AM
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Have you had a chance to see the
Halo3 video trailers? Did you know they’re hosted on
Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live?
Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live is a companion service for
Silverlight that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale media-rich Silverlight applications.Catherine Heller sat down with
Remy Pairault, Senior Program Manager for Silverlight Streaming, to discuss the new service and how it’s being used to host the new
Halo3 video trailers. (You'll see one of the videos playing on the screen next to Remy during the interview).
Here are time markers for specific conversation topics:
00:00:48 - Remy describes Silverlight Streaming , the scenarios (00:01:05) and benefits (00:01:28)
00:02:31 - Steps involved in preparing a
Silverlight app for hosting 00:05:05 - Manual upload using the
Silverlight Streaming administration site
00:06:04 - Using the Silverlight Streaming REST API to upload programmatically
00:06:27 - Discussion of Silverlight Streaming and
Windows Live ID
00:08:42 - Publishing video without writing any code,
00:09:34 - Using
Expression Encoder to prepare the video
00:10:54 - Publishing a video to a blog using a
Windows Live Writer (plug-in developed by
James Clarke)
00:12:21 - Discussion of the usage costs and terms of use; Remy summarizes the usage limits (00:15:53)
00:17:42 - Discussion of the Halo3 video trailers
00:21:47 - Evolution of the service , how it fits into the Windows Live Platform (00:24:04) and developer resources
Additional Resources:
Silverlight Streaming on Windows Live Dev
QuickStart: Package a Video File Using Expression
and http://dev.live.com : the source for all things developer-related around Windows Live!
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CPU T2500, Intel GMA 950 aka "iCrap"...
Something is wrong with last "technologies"...
Of course, I'm running in a VPC. I should check my real partition.
Bloody hell...
I installed the RTM version, I'll have to check which version it is when I get home. And wether it still goes out of sync, or if that was just a first time thing.
Pretty bad showcase for Silverlight if this happens to a lot of people, methinks. That live action thing is still perfectly in sync, though. Weird.
The only function of Silverlight 1.0 is to play video, and failing at that, how can developers build on it?
It is also worth noting that all the high res trailers were encoded according to the same spec with the same bit rate, and are fecthed exactly the same way by the player.
I reported it for additional testing specifically in this area.
Apparently we're not alone.
Notice that people are reporting this issue with all sorts of videos (including the FOX trailers). Quite a letdown.
Frogs69, if you're an MS employee, then that's a bad sign.
Perhaps, Silverlight 1.0 is literally the typical MS vee-one-point-oh product.
Indeed... I performed the search right after reading the posts in this thread, and I saw if for myself...
as "promised", here´s your PITA.
So this special Screen codec for the Webcasts must do some great (VBR) work!
Hardly could believe the math of Windows Calculator <grin>, but 512Kbs DO add up to 183MB for ~50 minutes!!!
Still WAY too much for casual downloads!
TIA for any further reductions!
G.
Still so, yeah. <sigh>
When Charles promised to post 512Kbit/sec Downloads I hoped this would be a viable solution. When I checked if he had kept his promise and I saw the 183KByte size of this subject I thought: "Dang, NO, he did not. Still have to wait."
But then I began to calculate, and, <arrrgh>, 183KB *IS* 512Kbs, which still *IS* prohibitive!
So, I´m in for the next round of negotiations (if Charles will listen another time), begging for these 212Kbs of Webcasts. But if you calculate, this Screen codec must be really good VBR (Variable Bit Rate) and actually works at an average of 20Kbs (twenty Kilo*bits*/sec!!!) and peaks only briefly when slides / whole screen contents change.
For my taste it´d be absolutely sufficient to see (Anders H.´s and other "interesting" <g>) faces and whiteboarding and zoomed close snippets in 320x240, 10 frames/sec... if this results in, say 50MB!!!
Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarles!
Thanks
G.
Maybe you have some problems? On an Athlon 2500+, 1 GB RAM, GF5200 works well.
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