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 ...
Come Join Us at MIX 2009!
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Expression Encoder, H.264, Internet Information Services, Silverlight | 1 Comment »MIX, Microsoft's annual conference for Web 2.0 designers and developers - is upon us. This year it will take place March 18-20 at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. If you're interested in the world of online video streaming (and I guess you are ...
Smooth Streaming FAQ
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Expression Encoder, H.264, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 1 Comment »The contents of this post have been moved to a new permanent location: http://alexzambelli.com/blog/smooth-streaming-faq/
Smooth Streaming Beta Released!
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 1 Comment »I am pleased to announce the availability of Smooth Streaming beta! The hot new media extension for IIS7 can now be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/extensions/SmoothStreaming, in both x86 and x64 flavors. The Smooth Streaming beta is also available for install through ...
Smooth Streaming Architecture
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in H.264, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 24 Comments »As described in the previous two posts, Smooth Streaming is Microsoft's implementation of HTTP-based adaptive streaming, which is a hybrid media delivery method. It acts like streaming, but is in fact based on HTTP progressive download. The HTTP downloads are performed ...
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 ...
A Brief History of Multi-Bitrate Streaming
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 5 Comments »It's been a while since I last posted. Probably the most significant news from Microsoft regarding Silverlight media since IBC (when we announced H.264/AAC support in Silverlight 3) has been on the IIS and Expression fronts. The Expression Encoder team ...
H.264 and AAC support coming in Silverlight v.Next
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 Posted in H.264, Silverlight | 5 Comments »I'm on a mini pre-IBC vacation this week so I was caught a little off-guard when I noticed that the big IBC announcement that we had been working on for months now - went out this morning. I didn't expect ...
DNC powered by Silverlight and Move
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Silverlight | No Comments »After all the Olympics madness I nearly forgot the "other" big Silverlight video event happening right now: The Democratic National Convention. Check it out at: http://gallery1.demconvention.com/ The DNC website is providing live streaming HD video coverage of the convention using Silverlight 2 Beta ...
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 ...