Expression Encoder

So, Silverlight 3 was released today, and the Expression Studio is available in a public release candidate, including the awesome Expression Encoder 2.I'll have a bunch more to say about it, of course, but first off let me just provide links to the important stuff relating to the media side of…

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…

In this clip, see how you can publish directly form Expression Encoder to Silverlight Live with this plug-in.  What is it?       This plug-in makes it very easy to publish and manage your encoded Silverlight video experiences online via the Silverlight…

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…

I was out sick last week, and I’m not emotionally prepared to admit that NAB is next week. But it shall be, and once again, I shall be there. Compressionist Party: Tuesday, April 21st, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm And, as many of you have emailed me to ask about, yes, we’ll be doing the Compressionist Party…

The essential Dan Rayburn had a good blog post asking we, Adobe, and the industry overall agree on a definition for HD Video on the web. I gave a quick response in the comments that I wanted to expand into a proposed definition. Resolution and frame rateThe infamous Table 3 of the ATSC…

Are you one of over 100,000 developers who has seen a MSDN Russ' Tool Shed Event over the past 10 years?  If not, now is your chance. Microsoft's Russ Fustino has captured an exciting new format for the event. It is a TV Show; including a co-host, MVP Stan…

…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…

Sometimes I blog to make it easy for me to find a URL later. This is one of those times. We’ve published a new whitepaper at Streamingmedia.com, the “Silverlight Migration Guide: Upgrading Your Windows Media Player Online Experiences.” It’s written by long-time Windows Media and Silverlight…

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…