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Tag Archives: IIS
Now available: Expression Encoder 4, IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta, SSME 1.0, SMF 2.0 RC1, Olympics case studies
While most of the world is on a collective vacation watching the World Cup, media teams at Microsoft have been busy at work. And watching the World Cup. 🙂 Released this month: Expression Studio 4, which of course includes Expression … Continue reading
Microsoft at NAB 2009: IIS Smooth Streaming Released to Web
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged IIS, media, NAB, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
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Smooth Streaming White Paper
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged adaptive streaming, IIS, media, Smooth Streaming
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Silverlight 3, IIS Media Services 3.0, Olympics 2010 – Wow, It Truly Is March Madness!
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 … Continue reading
Posted in H.264, Internet Information Services, Olympics, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged IIS, media, Media Services, MIX09, Silverlight, SL3
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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