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Category Archives: Smooth Streaming
New Year, New Job, New Challenges
As we leave 2012 behind us and turn our attention to 2013, the time has come for me to share some exciting personal news. After 10 years at Microsoft I have recently decided to leave the company to pursue other career opportunities. … Continue reading
Posted in Smooth Streaming
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H2 2012 Media Platform Product Update Roundup
It’s been a busy summer with most of the team focused on Windows Azure Media Services, but I’d like to take a moment to highlight a few other Media Platform releases of the past few months: November 7, 2012 Player … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Information Services, Smooth Streaming, Windows
Tagged media, Smooth Streaming, Transform Manager
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Windows Azure Media Services Preview Launched!
I’ve been holding back this post for about two weeks now, wanting to make sure the service got rolled out to all major Windows Azure datacenters first, but here it is now: Windows Azure Media Services Preview has been launched! The new … Continue reading
IIS Transform Manager 1.0 and Windows 8 Updates
The long awaited 1.0 release of IIS Transform Manager (which for a while there seemed stuck in GMail-like alpha/beta development) finally hit the Web last week! You can download it and read more about its features here: http://www.iis.net/download/transformmanager John Deutscher … Continue reading
Announcing Windows Azure Media Services and MPEG-DASH support
This week at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas we made two big announcements: “New cloud-based Windows Azure Media Services is designed to make creating, managing and delivering media to any device easier than ever by … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Information Services, Smooth Streaming, Windows Azure Media Services
Tagged DASH, IIS Media Services, media, MPEG-DASH, Smooth Streaming, WAMS, Windows Azure Media Services
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Extending Smooth Streaming Reach
Smooth Streaming has been a pivotal technology of the Microsoft Media Platform since its introduction in IIS Media Services 2.0 in 2009. And though it’s been commonly associated with Silverlight over the years, those familiar with Smooth Streaming architecture and … Continue reading
Silverlight and Its Role In the Future of Microsoft Media
“The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain* It’s been two months since version 5 of Microsoft Silverlight was released to the web. If you haven’t installed it already, you can get the latest version here. For the first … Continue reading
Posted in HTML5, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged HTML5, IIS Media Services, Internet Information Services, media, Media Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
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H2 2011 Product Update Roundup
It’s been a while since I updated the blog, so I will take this opportunity to bring everyone up to speed on the more recent Microsoft Media Platform product updates: November 9, 2011 Player Framework version 1.0 for HTML5 is … Continue reading
Transcoding 101 Roundtable, MIX 2011 and NAB 2011
A bit of shameless promotion: On Thursday, March 24th, I’ll be participating in a roundtable web event titled “Transcoding Methodology 101″ hosted by Streaming Media. Joining me will be Kevin Louden (Telestream), Charlie Good (Wowza) and Jon Robbins (Rhozet). The … Continue reading
Posted in Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged IIS Media Services, media, MIX, MIX11, NAB
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IIS Media How-To Resources
If you are new to IIS Media Services and Smooth Streaming, IIS.net/media is the website for you. However, finding relevant technology and deployment information on IIS.net can be somewhat cumbersome since it’s a wiki-styled site and a lot of the … Continue reading
Posted in Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged Expression Encoder, IIS Media Services, media, Smooth Streaming
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