Streaming the Olympics: How We Got Here
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in Internet Information Services, Olympics, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 3 Comments »Though it may seem like it was just yesterday, it's now been 18 months since we delivered for NBC the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics using Windows Media Services, Windows Media Player and Silverlight. Whereas in Beijing we experimented with HTTP adaptive streaming for on-demand ...
NBC, CTV and NRK Stream Winter Olympics in Silverlight
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in Linux, Olympics, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | No Comments »As you're probably well aware, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are upon us. Just as we did 2 years ago for 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, Microsoft has once again teamed up with NBC to bring online video coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics ...
Silverlight 3, IIS Media Services 3.0, Olympics 2010 – Wow, It Truly Is March Madness!
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in H.264, Internet Information Services, Olympics, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 7 Comments »Though blogging in Las Vegas might sound like a party foul, this has been an amazing week for Silverlight media - so much that I feel a sudden urge to report on it right now, right here. Silverlight 3 Beta A mere ...
The Birth of Smooth Streaming
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Olympics, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 25 Comments »In my last post I talked about the history of multi-bitrate streaming and how we got from RTSP and HTTP streaming back to HTTP download as the primary media web distribution mechanism. In this post we'll take a closer look ...
An inside look at NBC Olympics video player
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in Olympics, Silverlight | 14 Comments »It's the second week of the Beijing 2008 Olympics and though the press coverage of the NBC Olympics website has been more than thorough, one thing that hasn't been fully explained is - what exactly are you watching when exploring ...
Why no full screen mode in the NBC Olympics player?
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Olympics, Silverlight | No Comments »A very spirited discussion of the pros and cons of the NBCO player's (lack of) full screen mode is taking place over on the Silverlight forums: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22318/80644.aspx Microsoft's Tom Taylor has provided some context and explanation for the controversial design decision.
NBC Olympics video without Silverlight?
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in Olympics, Silverlight | 8 Comments »There's been a lot of rumor on the Internet regarding the NBC Olympics website's plug-in requirements and OS/browser support, so I thought I'd shed some more light on exactly what is and isn't supported. The NBCO website specifically lists the plug-ins ...
NBC Olympics 24/7
Saturday, August 9th, 2008 Posted in Olympics, Silverlight | 1 Comment »After more than 8 months of planning and development, full NBC Olympics online video coverage is underway! Anyone living in the U.S. can watch live and archived streaming video of nearly every Olympic event for free by visiting: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html The reason that only United ...