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Publicly and Freely Available MPEG Standards
If you’ve ever been in a situation where you needed access to MPEG standards, you probably discovered very quickly that they’re not easy to get. Standards created by MPEG working groups are published by ISO/IEC and the vast majority of … Continue reading
Low Video Resolutions in Per-Title Adaptive Encoding
Jan Ozer, producer of Streaming Learning Center courses and contributing editor of Streaming Media magazine, reached out to me recently with an interesting question: If using per-title video encoding (or any other multi-bitrate encoding approach where resolutions are dynamically determined … Continue reading
Posted in DASH, H.264, H.265, HLS
Tagged adaptive streaming, DASH, HLS, video encoding
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Musings On the Future of Live Linear Television
I’ve written an article for The Guardian’s media network blog about current trends in TV content distribution, how they’re affecting our viewing habits, and how ultimately those will affect the future of live linear TV. You can read it here: … Continue reading
Posted in H.264, H.265, Smooth Streaming
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Baptism of Fire in the Olympic Cauldron
The Olympics are upon us – again! Even though the ancient Greeks set the Olympic schedule 4 years apart (in fact, the literal definition of an Olympiad is “4 years”), the modern Olympics since 1992 have been only 2 years … Continue reading
Posted in Aventus, H.264, Olympics, Smooth Streaming, Windows Azure Media Services
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Introducing iStreamPlanet Aventus
As I glance at my blog I realize it’s been 7 months since my last post, which is probably as good of a sign as any that I should probably finally tell you a little bit about what I’ve been up … Continue reading
Posted in H.264, Smooth Streaming
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H.265/HEVC Ratification and 4K Video Streaming
OK, so maybe it was a shorter break from blogging than I expected. As it turns out the world does not stop when I change jobs. đ The media world today is abuzz with news of H.265/HEVC approval by the … Continue reading
Posted in H.264, H.265
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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
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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Come Join Us at MIX 2009!
MIX, Microsoft’s annual conference for Web 2.0 designers and developers – is upon us. This year it will take place March 18-20 at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. If you’re interested in the world of online video streaming (and I guess you … Continue reading
Posted in Expression Encoder, H.264, Internet Information Services, Silverlight
Tagged media, MIX, MIX09, Silverlight
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