Category Archives: Silverlight

Media Workshop at MIX

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Alex Zambelli

If you’re planning or considering attending MIX this year, I will be doing a workshop at MIX on March 14th titled “Media Processing Workflow”: http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/WKSP07 “Managing the media production pipeline for a site like NBC Olympics or NFL Football can be challenging. … Continue reading →

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Streaming the Olympics: How We Got Here

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Alex Zambelli

Though it may seem like it was just yesterday, it’s now been 18 months since we delivered for NBC the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics using Windows Media Services, Windows Media Player and Silverlight. Whereas in Beijing we experimented with HTTP adaptive streaming for on-demand … Continue reading →

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NBC, CTV and NRK Stream Winter Olympics in Silverlight

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Alex Zambelli

As you’re probably well aware, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are upon us. Just as we did 2 years ago for 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, Microsoft has once again teamed up with NBC to bring online video coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics … Continue reading →

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IIS Media Services 3.0 and Player SDK released!

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 … Continue reading →

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NBC Sunday Night Football – Powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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: … Continue reading →

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Microsoft at NAB 2009: IIS Smooth Streaming Released to Web

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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Smooth Streaming White Paper

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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MediaStreamSource Takes On a New Life

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

When the Silverlight team originally designed the MediaStreamSource API, its main purpose was to allow asynchronous reading of compressed video/audio samples from formats other than ASF. We took full advantage of this API to implement Smooth Streaming support in Silverlight … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed MIX…

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 … Continue reading →

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Silverlight 3, IIS Media Services 3.0, Olympics 2010 – Wow, It Truly Is March Madness!

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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