IIS Media Services 3.0 and Player SDK released!
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 5 Comments »Last week was a big one for Smooth Streaming! IIS Media Services 3.0, the IIS7 media extensions pack containing Smooth Streaming, has completed its 6-month beta development cycle and has been released to Web. You can download it here: http://www.iis.net/extensions/LiveSmoothStreaming Chris Knowlton has ...
NBC Sunday Night Football – Powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Posted in Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 3 Comments »Has it really been 5 months since my last post? Well, one of the reasons why I've been so inactive here is because I've been busy working on this project: Today we are launching the NBC Sunday Night Football website: http://snfextra.nbcsports.com ...
Microsoft at NAB 2009: IIS Smooth Streaming Released to Web
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | No Comments »Last day here at NAB in Las Vegas, so it's a perfect time to take a look at what we've done at NAB this year. Ben Waggoner has put together an excellent summary on his blog: http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/NAB-Day-1-Smooth-Streaming-released-1080p-in-Silverlight-new-VC-1-and-more/ So the big news is: ...
Smooth Streaming White Paper
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 6 Comments »I know that many of you have been reading my blog for information about IIS Smooth Streaming. I've posted a series of posts on that topic, but sometimes blog posts can be difficult to aggregate. So if you're looking for ...
In Case You Missed MIX…
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 11 Comments »If you were unable to attend MIX 2009, you'll be pleased to know that the videos of sessions are already appearing online: https://content.visitmix.com/2009/sessions/. Here are the links to the videos of sessions I had previously mentioned: What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 Speaker: ...
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 | 4 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 ...
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 | 19 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 ...