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- 2022 Demuxed: It's Time We Said Goodbye To Fractional Framerates
- 2018: SM Advanced Forum
- 2012: Interview at Streaming Media West
- 2012: SM Europe: MPEG DASH – Origin, Development, and Deployment Strategies
- 2012: SM Europe: MPEG DASH – Opportunities and Impacts on Adaptive Streaming
- 2011: HTML5 Video Summit Presentation
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Tag Archives: media
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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Now available: Expression Encoder 4, IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta, SSME 1.0, SMF 2.0 RC1, Olympics case studies
While most of the world is on a collective vacation watching the World Cup, media teams at Microsoft have been busy at work. And watching the World Cup. 🙂 Released this month: Expression Studio 4, which of course includes Expression … Continue reading
Smooth Streaming 3D concept previewed at NAB
NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show 2010 wrapped up yesterday in Las Vegas. Among the Silverlight and Smooth Streaming announcements and demos at this year’s NAB were: Silverlight availability on Broadcom and Intel systems-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions, which will enable set-top-box … Continue reading
Posted in 3D, Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged 3D, media, Silverlight, stereoscopic
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Sunday Night Football Case Study
Remember NBC Sunday Night Football? Microsoft has just released a detailed case study of the SNF project describing the partners, products, tools and workflow used to deliver the final solution. You can check it out here: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006602 http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/808/sunday-night-football-live-in-hd-with-microsoft-silverlight-3-and-iis-smooth-streaming/ I believe … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged media, SNF, Sunday Night Football
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Media Workshop at MIX
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
Streaming the Olympics: How We Got Here
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
Posted in Internet Information Services, Olympics, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged media
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NBC, CTV and NRK Stream Winter Olympics in Silverlight
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
Posted in Linux, Olympics, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming
Tagged media
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IIS Media Services 3.0 and Player SDK released!
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