Tag Archives: adaptive streaming

Low Video Resolutions in Per-Title Adaptive Encoding

Posted on November 3, 2021 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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SCTE-35: In-Band Event Signaling For Live OTT

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Alex Zambelli

I recently did a talk about SCTE-35 at the local Seattle Video Tech Meetup. If you’re interested in a basic overview of the SCTE-35 standard for in-band event signaling in live streams, here’s the slide deck: PDF download: SCTE-35 In-Band … 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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Smooth Streaming Architecture

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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The Birth of Smooth Streaming

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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A Brief History of Multi-Bitrate Streaming

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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