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Best practices for Windows Media Encoder in 2009Jan 05, 2009 at 5:54 PM| 19 views this week
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I’ve had a bunch of emails lately from people still using Windows Media Encoder for a variety of reasons. A surprising number of people seem to be using ancient versions of actual encoder .dll files, so I figured it was time for one-last roundup post for best practices with WME and the old Format… -
Big Buck Bunny Smooth Streaming sample for downloadFeb 26, 2009 at 7:45 PM| 16 views this week 0
…and the Big Buck Bunny sample up on SmoothHD.com that I described the encoding process for is now available for download. John Bocharov has a tutorial up showing how to use the content with the new Smooth Streaming Beta for IIS7. Among other things, it shows the nice WebDAV integration between…
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Low Latency webcasting with Windows Media and SiverlightJun 21, 2008 at 10:25 PM| 10 views this week 4
So, Streaming Media is doing a special "Europe edition" of Streaming Media, and I'm doing an article about webcasting for it. I've getting a bunch of questions about how to deliver low-latency live streaming to Silverlight, and so with their permission, I'm excerpting this section on that…
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First MediaStreamSource example is upOct 01, 2008 at 7:04 AM| 9 views this week 0
My colleague Larry Olson has posted the first public demo project for MediaStreamSource. This new Silverlight 2 feature enables file parsers and network protocols to be implemented in managed code inside of Silverlight, thus enabling support beyond the built-in native formats. Since MSS passes off…
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Beta Release of Smooth Streaming!Feb 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM| 9 views this week 0
It’s alive! The IIS team has just released the first public beta of the Smooth Streaming module for IIS7. This means anyone with Windows Server 2008 can start experimenting with this next generation media delivery technology for Silverlight. We’re aiming for a final release in Q2 this year, which…
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First Moonlight 2.0 Preview Out - with Smooth StreamingMay 07, 2009 at 2:27 PM| 9 views this week 0
Novell has just released the first Moonlight 2.0 Preview, dubbed Moonlight 1.9. It adds a bunch of new Silverlight 2 features, and offers compatibility with many more sites. Near and dear to my heart, it supports Smooth Streaming. Deep Zoom is also working. The mono team has tons of info, so here’s…
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TIm Harader and John Bishop in Live HD web event Thur the 16thJul 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM| 9 views this week 0
So, Millimeter is hosting a live web event about Live Smooth Streaming, featuring the always-awesome John Bishop of Inlet and our own (also excellent) Tim Harader.With those two together, expect an hour of real-world experience and context with awesome technical details and delivered…
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Project Tuva: highly cool Silverlight player of Richard Feynman lecturesAug 28, 2009 at 5:21 PM| 9 views this week 0
Sorry it's been so long without any blogging. Between my class at Stanford, finishing the second edition of my compression book, and a profoundly cool project that'll hopefully be announced soon, things have been beyond busy. But I've got a lot of topics in the queue I hope to get posted before IBC… -
My Silverlight 3 preview up at StreamingMedia.comJul 09, 2009 at 12:11 PM| 8 views this week 0
The newest in my "Silverlight Guru" interviews with Troy Dreier is up now. It offers a concise overview of some of the big features we have coming for Silverlight 3 and with our encoding infrastructure.http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11268And the previous installments are…
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The Hopefully Definitive "is VC-1 compatible with WMV 9?" FAQFeb 11, 2009 at 9:17 PM| 8 views this week 0
Once I’ve answered the same question in three different emails, I figure it’s time to blog it. By that metric, I should have blogged this about 17 times over by now! Is VC-1 the same as Windows Media Video 9?Yes, the big picture: VC-1 is the SMPTE standardized version (SMPTE 421M) of Windows Media…
