Tag Archives: Smooth Streaming

Understanding Latency in HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Alex Zambelli

Jan Ozer of Streaming Media magazine contacted me recently with a simple question about Smooth Streaming and HLS latency… and I provided a more elaborate reply than he perhaps anticipated. Here is my response in its entirety, for your reading … Continue reading →

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H2 2012 Media Platform Product Update Roundup

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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Windows Azure Media Services Preview Launched!

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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IIS Transform Manager 1.0 and Windows 8 Updates

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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Announcing Windows Azure Media Services and MPEG-DASH support

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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Extending Smooth Streaming Reach

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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Silverlight and Its Role In the Future of Microsoft Media

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Alex Zambelli

“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 →

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H2 2011 Product Update Roundup

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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IIS Media How-To Resources

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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Announcing Expression Encoder 4 SP1

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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