SmoothHD.com

Our friends at CDNetworks announced their adoption of Smooth Streaming last week. And now they’ve have made a very cool new Smooth Streaming demo site: http://www.nextcdn.com/Silverlight.htm.It builds on the SmoothHD and IIS.net demos with a very nice GUI, and an awesome use of some of…

Live Smooth StreamingLots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one.First, as part of Scott Guthrie’s keynote yesterday (now with transcript), we announced that live streaming is coming for Smooth Streaming. The key advantages of Smooth…

So, Silverlight 3 was released for public beta today, during Scott Guthrie’s keynote at MIX. There will be an on-demand version of it later on at Visitmix.com. There’s tons of info flowing around today, so I’m just going to focus on the media-related news that came out today. I’ll be posting a lot…

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…

Oh, I’m a bad, bad blogger. The Expression Encoder Service Pack 1 has been out for MONTHS, and and it’s cool enough that I haven’t had the time to do it full justice. Oh well, better short than nothing; I’ll just start off with the biggest new feature: multibitrate encoding, including support for…