James Clarke: Creating Silverlight Media with Expression Media Encoder

Posted By: Charles | Apr 16th, 2007 @ 4:38 PM | 42,587 Views | 22 Comments

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Microsoft Silverlight (announced today) is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in that supports rich media delivery over the web. But how do you create the rich media in the first place? Expression Media Encoder is one key element of the workflow: providing encoding, annotation, watermarking, and custom skins.

Dr Sneath visits James Clarke, one of the program managers on the Expression team to see an amazing end-to-end demo that shows the power of Expression Media Encoder and Silverlight working together.

Tags: Expression, Silverlight

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RichardRudek
So what do you expect for nothin'... :P

Whoops. 404 error on download, and only right-channel audio on media stream.

Charles
Welcome Change

The download file is still propagating through the cluster... It will not 404 after a little while....

Not sure about the audio problem.

RichardRudek
So what do you expect for nothin'... :P

Yeah, I'm streaming at 331Kbits / s, just in case you have multiple streams setup. It's definately a problem with the stream.

Tim Sneath

Sorry - I think that's my fault. I was using a new professional camcorder, and I was a bit overwhelmed with all the knobs and buttons so I think it only recorded the right audio channel. I'm better with software than hardware - apologies for any inconvenience caused!

RichardRudek
So what do you expect for nothin'... :P

An interesting video. Thanks.

PS: Tim, I can be a pedantic sod, at times. Which means that when I notice a problem, I tend to be distracted by it, and investigate. I figure there might be a few other like me, so letting them know up front may allow them to see pass it. Good work, anyway. I doubt I could operate a camera AND engage in a coherrent conversation at the same time - assuming you weren't cheating... Smiley

euny

Good job.
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ZippyV
Fired Up

Is this application freely available just like the previous Windows Media Encoder?

intrepid

So, it works on PC and those Mac things, but can only be created on PC because it is designed in WPF. Isn't that a problem...? I mean, I hate Macintosh computers but graphic/web designers (for no apparent reason) love them.

I have one request Channel 9 - make a new video player using this technology and have it ready for MIX! Tongue Out

Does this technology allow for buffered content in the way that youtube or soapbox does it? I hate when videos pause to buffer, I'd rather wait for the whole thing to buffer and then watch it.