Smooth Streaming

During live events like Build, TechEd or GoingNative, Channel 9 does a "homepage takeover" and provides a complete live conference experience. A person can virtually attend the event and never leave the homepage. There's a lot going on under the hood with this page and we're going to dig…

Hey folks, we deployed an update to Channel 9 today, bringing us two major changes: First, we have moved to a new video player, which has enabled us to start publishing our content using Silverlight Smooth Streaming. You’ll see more and more video encoded using this format as new content is run…

During the keynote of Tech.Ed in New Zealand we demonstrated a media future vision built around the premise of live sport, windows phone 7, surface and live smooth streaming. Thanks to NV Interactive, Sky TV, Michael Kordahi, Jordan Knight, John Papa and Nigel Watson for helping me pull it off.…

While at NAB this year, Alex Zambelli showed us 3D streaming with Smooth Streaming. NAB this year was all about 3D and we had several announcements of our own for that. It's only a matter of time until Channel 9 is in 3D. Also announced at NAB this year was IIS Media Services 4.0 support for Smooth…

While at NAB this year, Alex Zambelli showed us 3D streaming with Smooth Streaming. NAB this year was all about 3D and we had several announcements of our own for that. It's only a matter of time until Channel 9 is in 3D. Also announced at NAB this year was IIS Media Services 4.0 support for…

Microsoft announced at the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show that it’s working with Intel and Broadcom to port the Silverlight platform to set-top boxes, connected TVs, Blu-ray players and other consumer devices. Using system-on-a-chip (SOC) technology, consumer electronics…

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…

The Home Shopping Network has upgraded their site to Silverlight 3 and their broadcast feeds to HD. This is the first 24x7 Smooth Streaming site that is accessible to the public. Almost makes you want to buy something...

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…

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…