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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
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
SMF 2.5 with 3D video support coming soon
Bob Cowherd from Vertigo Software has put together a nice blog post about one of the cool new features going into SMF 2.5: stereoscopic 3D video support. We will ship SMF with a sample red-cyan anaglyph plugin, while NVIDIA will … 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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Announcing Expression Encoder 4 SP1
Just received this news… Service Pack 1 for Expression Encoder 4 will be released on January 31, 2011. The encoder update will be available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/Expression/service-packs/Encoder.aspx This is a significant update to EE4, boasting an impressive list of … Continue reading
Posted in Expression Encoder, H.264, Smooth Streaming
Tagged Expression Encoder, media, Smooth Streaming
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IIS Media 4.0, SMF 2.3, RCE 1.0 SP1 and More
It’s been too long since my last post, so I thought I’d get warmed up and back into blogging form by posting something about recent releases on the Microsoft media platform. After PDC 2010 in November which focused on new … Continue reading
NASCAR Racing in 3D on Your PC!
On July 3rd at 7:30 pm ET, you will be able to experience for the first time a live streaming event in 3D using just Silverlight and NVIDIA 3D Vision! We have teamed up with Turner Sports, NVIDIA and iStreamPlanet to bring … Continue reading
Posted in 3D, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged 3D, media, Nvidia, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
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