Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/249492_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers 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 site00:06:04 - Using the Silverlight Streaming REST API to upload programmatically00:06:27 - Discussion of Silverlight Streaming and Windows Live ID00:08:42 - 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 DevQuickStart: Package a Video File Using Expressionand  http://dev.live.com : the source for all things developer-related around Windows Live! en Sat, 25 May 2013 21:55:26 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 21:55:26 GMT Rev9 Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251386180000000 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:16:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251386180000000 Bas Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers CPU T2500, Intel GMA 950 aka "iCrap"...

Something is wrong with last "technologies"... Perplexed

posted by BlackTiger

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251649770000000 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:36:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251649770000000 BlackTiger Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
Bas wrote:
I've seen the Halo 3 trailers, but apart from the live action one, the sound was horribly out of sync for each one. I was impressed with how there was no noticable buffering for such high def trailers, but what's up with that?
Bas, when you do Add/Remove Programs -> Silverlight -> Support Info ... what version # do you get. Mine is 1.0.20816 and the vids seem fine. I used to get out-of-sync audio too. But now, it's OK.

Of course, I'm running in a VPC. I should check my real partition.

posted by Minh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251692820000000 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:48:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251692820000000 Minh Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
Bloody hell... Perplexed

posted by BlackTiger

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posted by Baal

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251760240000000 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:40:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251760240000000 Baal Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
Minh wrote:

Bas wrote:
I've seen the Halo 3 trailers, but apart from the live action one, the sound was horribly out of sync for each one. I was impressed with how there was no noticable buffering for such high def trailers, but what's up with that?
Bas, when you do Add/Remove Programs -> Silverlight -> Support Info ... what version # do you get. Mine is 1.0.20816 and the vids seem fine. I used to get out-of-sync audio too. But now, it's OK.


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.

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251780250000000 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:13:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633251780250000000 Bas Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
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.

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252154880000000 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:38:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252154880000000 Bas Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
Bas wrote:
Nope, same version, and still horribly out of synch. When I watch the trailer, I still see those kids talking about "Who's up there" when I hear the first explosion.

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.
That's incredible. For kicks, I did a google search for "silverlight out of sync" and read through the first 2 pages of search results. About 50% of those links were of people complaining video/audio out of sync. Do you know how many MS responses there were? ZERO.

The only function of Silverlight 1.0 is to play video, and failing at that, how can developers build on it?

posted by Minh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252274550000000 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:57:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252274550000000 Minh Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers posted by Frogs69

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252382650000000 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:57:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252382650000000 Frogs69 Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
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.

posted by Frogs69

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252389560000000 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:09:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252389560000000 Frogs69 Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
Apparently we're not alone.

Notice that people are reporting this issue with all sorts of videos (including the FOX trailers). Quite a letdown.

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252667370000000 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:52:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252667370000000 Bas Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
Frogs69 wrote:
This thread is the first where I see such issues reported about video and sound being played back our of sync on the Halo 3 trailers

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.

posted by Minh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252981510000000 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:35:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633252981510000000 Minh Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
Bas wrote:
[quote user="Frogs69"]This thread is the first where I see such issues reported about video and sound being played back our of sync on the Halo 3 trailers. quote]

Apparently we're not alone.

Notice that people are reporting this issue with all sorts of videos (including the FOX trailers). Quite a letdown.


Indeed... I performed the search right after reading the posts in this thread, and I saw if for myself...

posted by Frogs69

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633253462780000000 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:57:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633253462780000000 Frogs69 Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers 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.

posted by gue

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633254970870000000 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:51:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633254970870000000 gue Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers

posted by malcolms

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633256956370000000 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:00:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633256956370000000 malcolms Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
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.

posted by gue

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posted by malcolms

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633258754410000000 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:57:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633258754410000000 malcolms Re: Remy Pairault: Test driving Silverlight Streaming with the Halo3 video trailers
BlackTiger wrote:
Constant 70% CPU utilization on AMD X2 4200+ and ATI R2600XT...

Bloody hell... Perplexed



Maybe you have some problems? On an Athlon 2500+, 1 GB RAM, GF5200 works well.

posted by Yankee

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633429706290000000 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:37:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Remy-Pairault-Test-driving-Silverlight-Streaming-with-the-Halo3-video-trailers#c633429706290000000 Yankee