Ben Waggoner
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Tesco and Silverlight delivering the full disc experience without a discSep 10, 2009 at 5:25 AM| 6 views this week
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I'm here in Amsterdam with furious jetlag, but happy to finally be able to discuss one of big things I've been working on for a while. We've been working on using Silverlight to deliver full interactive movie experiences ala Blu-ray and DVD, liberated from the shiny disc. I've been frustrated for… -
Wimbledon Championships in live 720pJun 27, 2009 at 10:33 AM| 6 views this week 0
One of the things distracting me from blogging lately has now been announced: the Wimbledon Championships are going to be live HD in Silverlight starting today (Saturday June 27th). Full details (once again) at the Silverlight Team Blog. This is going to be the biggest English language Live Smooth…
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Michael Jackson Memorial in live HD Smooth Streaming July 7th 10am PDTJul 06, 2009 at 7:39 PM| 6 views this week 0
Just got some news: tomorrow's Michael Jackson memorial is going to be broadcast live in 720p Smooth Streaming by Sympatico / MSN inMusic. The feed is originating from Canada, but is not georestricted! I think this is the first globally available Live HD Smooth Streaming event.The event kicks off at…
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Compressionist Party Details - Encore Tower Suite 1805Apr 20, 2009 at 5:37 PM| 6 views this week 0
Okay, as promised here's the actual location of the Compressionist Party tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21.It's at the Encore at Wynn (aka "Wynn Encore" and "Encore Las Vegas") Tower Suite 1805.As promised 6-9 pm. There should be some beverages and light snacks.RSVP isn't required, but…
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Live Smooth Streaming Beta, Inlet's encoder, and the 2010 Winter OlympicsMar 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM| 6 views this week 0
Live Smooth StreamingLots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one. First, as part of Scott Guthrie’s keynote yesterday (now with transcript), we announced that live streaming is coming for Smooth Streaming. The key advantages of Smooth…
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First Smooth Streaming User-Generated ContentMay 02, 2009 at 1:21 PM| 6 views this week 0
So, this is irrationally exciting for me; what's perhaps the first UGC (user-generated content) in Smooth Streaming. Two of our awesome evangelists, Tim Heuer and Arturo Toldeo were in New Zealand for WEB09. They were invited to do a code-off with three Adobe representatives to build a cool app to…
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Akamai's Smooth Streaming officially launched, with customers!Mar 17, 2009 at 4:16 PM| 6 views this week 0
It’s MIX09 this week, so brace yourselves for a deluge of media-related blogging from me. We’ve been in alpha/beta for a few months now, and today Akamai announced the official launch of their “AdaptiveEdge” service based on Smooth Streaming. The full press release is here. And of course you can…
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Moonlight 1.0 is released!Feb 12, 2009 at 10:29 AM| 6 views this week 0
Great news – the full Moonlight 1.0 has been released. I talked about the beta back in the fall. We used the beta for the Presidential Inauguration, (further details in this Channel 9 interview). Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight, built from the public specifications, based…
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8-way multithreading in Windows 7Jan 09, 2009 at 12:26 PM| 6 views this week 1
Windows 7 Beta is out today. It’s free to participate in, so if you’re interested, please check it out and give us feedback. To whet the appetites of my compressionist friends, one much-requested new feature in the Format SDK .dll in Windows 7: It now can go up to 8-way threading, compared to the…
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Netflix’s Neil Hunt shares encoding workflow infoNov 19, 2008 at 5:50 PM| 6 views this week 2
Now, this is a blog post! Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer for Netflix, has just put up a great blog post talking about their encoding workflow for their video streaming services. It’s full of awesomeness, but I wanted to excerpt the section describing their 1st gen, 2nd gen, and HD encoding…
