Tag Archives: Smooth Streaming

IIS Media 4.0, SMF 2.3, RCE 1.0 SP1 and More

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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NASCAR Racing in 3D on Your PC!

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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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

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Alex Zambelli

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 →

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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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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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Smooth Streaming FAQ

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

The contents of this post have been moved to a new permanent location: http://alexzambelli.com/blog/smooth-streaming-faq/

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Smooth Streaming Beta Released!

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

I am pleased to announce the availability of Smooth Streaming beta! The hot new media extension for IIS7 can now be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/extensions/SmoothStreaming, in both x86 and x64 flavors. The Smooth Streaming beta is also available for install through … 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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