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Category Archives: Silverlight
Come Join Us at MIX 2009!
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Expression Encoder, H.264, Internet Information Services, Silverlight
Tagged media, MIX, MIX09, Silverlight
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Smooth Streaming FAQ
The contents of this post have been moved to a new permanent location: http://alexzambelli.com/blog/smooth-streaming-faq/
Posted in Expression Encoder, H.264, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged FAQ, Smooth Streaming
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Smooth Streaming Beta Released!
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged IIS, IIS7, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
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Smooth Streaming Architecture
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 … Continue reading
Posted in H.264, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged adaptive streaming, IIS, ISMV, MP4, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming, streaming
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The Birth of Smooth Streaming
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 … Continue reading
A Brief History of Multi-Bitrate Streaming
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 … Continue reading
H.264 and AAC support coming in Silverlight v.Next
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 … Continue reading
Posted in H.264, Silverlight
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DNC powered by Silverlight and Move
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Silverlight
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An inside look at NBC Olympics video player
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Olympics, Silverlight
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Moonlight 2.0 – Help wanted
Jason Perlow of ZDNet wrote a very supporting article of Silverlight and its handling of the NBC Olympics website, but that’s not the reason why I bring it up here. Jason points out something perhaps less obvious but far more interesting that bears … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Silverlight
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