Shishir Mehrotra - WinFS beta 1 team meeting

Posted By: scobleizer | Aug 29th, 2005 @ 4:48 PM | 129,235 Views | 64 Comments

Last week Shishir invited us over to have a chat with the WinFS team. Imagine our suprise when Quentin Clark, director of program management on the WinFS team, started the interview by handing interviewer Robert Scoble a CD with beta 1 on it.

We then spent an hour with the team getting up to date on what they've been doing. Also seen is Samuel Druker, development manager.

One thing that's real exciting? WinFS will be released on not just Windows Vista (the demos here are seen on Windows XP).

Sorry about the focus problems, our camera is starting to freak out.

There are already two threads started about the WinFS release today, by the way:

Looks like WinFS is back on track and WinFS Beta 1 Released.

The demo starts at about 11:00. Don't miss that!
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#Aug 29th, 2005 @ 5:03 PM
keeron
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Thanks a million Scoble! Downloading the video so I can view offline...but from your comments (here, your blog), seems like the demo is mind-blowing! Can't wait to see it (hopefully there's enough code/hints for us developers to try it out on our systems) Any idea when when we'll see more demos or actual code for this from the WinFS team? - Keeron
#Aug 29th, 2005 @ 5:26 PM
itprochris
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Am I correct that this is the 500th video?
#Aug 29th, 2005 @ 5:31 PM
jeffsand
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itprochris wrote:
Am I correct that this is the 500th video?


http://channel9.msdn.com/showforum.aspx?forumid=14 shows that this is the 522 video.
#Aug 29th, 2005 @ 5:34 PM
jonathanh
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Better video quality = bigger bandwidth requirements. And then other Channel 9 users would be bitching about how long it takes to download, or how it won't stream smoothly over their connection. So it's a compromise.

#Aug 29th, 2005 @ 5:37 PM
scobleizer
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I'm the video guy

To get best quality use the "Download" link. That's a 500kbps file. It's already more than 200MB. How much bigger do you want me to make these files? At some point someone will ask me why our videos are sucking up all available bandwidth coming out of Redmond. Smiley

#Aug 29th, 2005 @ 5:38 PM
scobleizer
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The download links now are encoded at 500kbps. The "play" links are encoded for 300kbps/100kbps/43kbps streaming. So, using the download link will give you noticeably better quality. I'm also playing around with the encoder. We're also playing with some new cameras.
#Aug 29th, 2005 @ 5:43 PM
scobleizer
scobleizer
I'm the video guy
Orbit: they offer about the same video quality at the same bandwidth. MPEG4 is better, but our streaming servers support WMV, not other file types.

If you are using the download file the quality is actually pretty good. What player/OS are you using?
#Aug 29th, 2005 @ 5:54 PM
Andre Da Costa
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Very interesting interview and demos, this stuff is definitely exciting. I can see a whole new world of dynamic applications that will really revolutionize how we use Windows in the future. Great stuff!
#Aug 29th, 2005 @ 5:55 PM
intelman
intelman
WMV can look great, but I would like better quality for Channel9 too!
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