Silverlight Streaming

On September 9th, the NFL experimented with Silverlight technology by broadcasting the Vikings/Saints game live via NBC’s Football Extra. The online telecast featured extra camera angles, in addition to Silverlight's smooth streaming, HD quality video technology. Silverlight, which turns your…

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…

On July 7th at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern) the broadcast of Michael Jackson's memorial begins. It will be streamed using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight so you can watch online. Live. In HD. No glove required. To watch the memorial, point your browser to…

If you're a tennis fan, you'll be happy to know NBC Sports will be streaming a simulcast of the broadcast coverage of the championships this year -- in full 720p HD! You can go to the site now and watch daily previews and highlights. But come Saturday, June 27th, the streaming will kick up…

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…

After spending more of my Saturday than I care to remember pulling up Scotch Broom at my parent's weekend place in Sandy, OR, I'm happy to return to some good compression news that's not so nearly hard on the knees.I've had a lot of requests for a way to directly access the WMV files in my demos I…

Listen to TechNet Radio and learn how you can leverage the benefits of the Windows Live platform for your organization. We discuss Windows Live ID; Microsoft Silverlight Streaming; and the Windows Live Admin Center, which allows you to manage a slice of Windows Live.  We also have our May…

IntroductionAs Expression Encoder 2 approaches its immenent release, I've been using it for more and more real-world projects. This recent one was particularly chewy fun, and I thought it would make a good tutorial for a high-touch workflow. As you may remember from a few weeks ago, I was one of…

I've been working for what seems like forever on a good 1080p24 film-sourced content with clear rights that can be used for codec testing by the broader community.Since I've finally realized that a big purpose of a blog is an auxilliary memory for myself, and to have a place to point people towards…

This Week on Channel 9 with guest host Ed Kaim, we cover -  Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks (0:50 - 2:50) - ASP.NET MVC Source available for download (2:50 -  3:50) - Silverlight version of Visual Studio Express site launches (3:50 - 5:06)  - Martin Maly…