Ben Waggoner

Hello all,Sorry so long without blogging. I've been in the process of getting moved over from On10.net to Channel 9 for reasons to tiresome to mention, and this little side project has been eating up a lot of my time.So, going forward, my official new home…

I'm here in Amsterdam with furious jetlag, but happy to finally be able to discuss one of big things I've been working on for a while. We've been working on using Silverlight to deliver full interactive movie experiences ala Blu-ray and DVD, liberated from the shiny disc. I've been frustrated for…

For those mourning my relative blog interactivity and going to IBC, you can get your fill of the live Ben Waggoner 3D experience at the Microsoft both. I'll be at the booth at least several hours every day. I'll get final details up here before the show opens.Microsoft is in the lovely-but-elusive…

Sorry it's been so long without any blogging. Between my class at Stanford, finishing the second edition of my compression book, and a profoundly cool project that'll hopefully be announced soon, things have been beyond busy. But I've got a lot of topics in the queue I hope to get posted before IBC…

So, Millimeter is hosting a live web event about Live Smooth Streaming, featuring the always-awesome John Bishop of Inlet and our own (also excellent) Tim Harader.With those two together, expect an hour of real-world experience and context with awesome technical details and delivered with a…

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…

The default player is only embedding at 848x wide. So I'll see if I've go the HTML-fu to embed big enough to get the full 1280x720.

Just got some news: tomorrow's Michael Jackson memorial is going to be broadcast live in 720p Smooth Streaming by Sympatico / MSN inMusic. The feed is originating from Canada, but is not georestricted! I think this is the first globally available Live HD Smooth Streaming event.The event kicks off at…

One of the things distracting me from blogging lately has now been announced: the Wimbledon Championships are going to be live HD in Silverlight starting today (Saturday June 27th). Full details (once again) at the Silverlight Team Blog. This is going to be the biggest English language Live Smooth…