Smooth Streaming

My favorite episode so far - strong news-wise (Moonlight 1.0 ships, Tim Sneath reports Silverlight is fizzing, and a $5000 Silverlight game contest), hearty tutorials including how to use AddIns in Blend and mesmorizing colorful demos. Stories covered in this episode include:…

Hey folks, we deployed an update to Channel 9 today, bringing us two major changes: First, we have moved to a new video player, which has enabled us to start publishing our content using Silverlight Smooth Streaming. You’ll see more and more video encoded using this format as new content is run…

While at NAB this year, Alex Zambelli showed us 3D streaming with Smooth Streaming. NAB this year was all about 3D and we had several announcements of our own for that. It's only a matter of time until Channel 9 is in 3D. Also announced at NAB this year was IIS Media Services 4.0…

В седьмом выпуске Петр Диденко и Михаил Черномордиков обсуждают основные анонсы прошедшей конференции MIX и ожидающейся в России конференции ReMIX. Впервые запись подкаста снимается на видео! Подписка на RSS подкаста -…

It started as a conversation about "crowd sourcing" images that people have already tagged as New Zealand to construct a demo from our shipping Silverlight 2 technology. I spent 3 days building a "demo-ware" prototype and presented it during a keynote  slot…

…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…

The Home Shopping Network has upgraded their site to Silverlight 3 and their broadcast feeds to HD. This is the first 24x7 Smooth Streaming site that is accessible to the public. Almost makes you want to buy something...

So far, Alex Zambelli has had most of the SmoothHD.com fun while I was off on some other projects, but this time he was off on some other projects and I got to do an encode all myself. I figured this was as good a time as go through a hands-on project for Smooth Streaming. The SourceWe’ve had a few…

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…

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…