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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…

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…

I've been playing around a bunch with screen recordings lately (as you'll see in my next blog post), and I've noticed a pretty common problem: people leaving ClearType on while recording. ClearType is cool stuff, adding improved anti-aliasing on LCD displays. But the way it works is by taking…

A few months ago I posted links to my Expression Encoder training. However, I didn't encode the original clips, and being a little obsessive I wanted to see wha I could pull off myself with VC-1 for screen shots.You can see the results of my work here.Some tips for encoding screen shots:I-Frame…

Alex Zambelli has a VC-1 SDK FAQ up, saving me the trouble of doing one .If you have any Q's that haven't been FA'ed up there, let him know.

Way back in September, we announced we were doing a VC-1 Encoder SDK. I'm happy to report that not only are we making it available, but we've decided to release the "Professional" version for free, for incorporation into compression products and tools. It's just a SDK, so it will need to…

The long-awaited version 2.2 of Flip4Mac has been released. The new version has a variety of new features. Full release notes are here, but the new playback features are: Added JavaScript support to the browser pluginsAdded support for URL Stream ScriptingImproved ASX handlingImproved support for…

We've just released a hotfix for a recently discovered issue impacting encoding performance when doing muliple bitrates ("Intelligent Streaming"). Essentially, all the encodes happen on a single core, instead of spreading out over up to 4…

David Trescot of Rhozet and I were guests on last week's episode of Derrick Freeman's "The DV Show." David talked about Carbon (a great compression product, soon to support our VC-1 Encoder SDK), and I answered questions about Windows Media, Silverlight, and the VC-1 Encoder SDK.The…

Alex Zambelli has updated his invaluable WMCmd.vbs yet again. The two main new features are improved support for running multiple versions at once (great with my new 8-core Barcelona workstation), an explicit QP mode for 1-pass VBR, and refactored presets for different compression levels.The…