VC-1

Looking to learn more about encoding videos for the internet and several other potential deployments using Expression Encoder 3? Looking for a screen capture utility? Do you have a HD WMV file, but it does not play properly when streamed over the internet? Learn the answers to these…

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…

So, it's the end of Monday here in Las Vegas, and I've already got Thursday voice. I wish I could explain with a great Vegas story involving cigars and bourbon, but it's actually a nasty virus from my three year old that's been hammering me for a couple of weeks. So I'm skipping the Akamai shindig…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Moonlight/Silverlight 1.0 player!As I mentioned on Friday, the official streaming feed of Barak Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Committee will be using Silverlight 2. However, using managed code in the player leaves out Linux users of the Moonlight 1.0 beta, as well as PowerPC Mac users. We’ve…