Tag Archives: Windows Media

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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