Alex Zambelli's Silverlight Media Blog
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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:
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NBC Sunday Night Football - Powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming
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:
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Microsoft at NAB 2009: IIS Smooth Streaming Released to Web
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 news is: IIS Media Services 2.0 (featuring on-demand Smooth Streaming) has been officially released to Web, a [...]
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Smooth Streaming White Paper
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 a single, one-stop-shop for information about Smooth Streaming, you can now download a white paper [...]
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In Case You Missed MIX…
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 Silverlight 3 Speaker: Joe Stegman (Microsoft) Microsoft Silverlight Media End-to-End Speaker: Alex Zambelli (Microsoft) Creating Media Content for Microsoft Silverlight Using [...]
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Silverlight 3, IIS Media Services 3.0, Olympics 2010 - Wow, It Truly Is March Madness!
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 A mere 5 months after releasing Silverlight 2 RTW, we have now made Silverlight 3 Beta available [...]
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Come Join Us at MIX 2009!
MIX, Microsoft’s annual conference for Web 2.0 designers and developers - is upon us. This year it will take place March 18-20 at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. If you’re interested in the world of online video streaming (and I guess you are since you’re already reading this blog) and plan on visiting MIX 2009, I suggest you [...]
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Smooth Streaming FAQ
I will try to keep this FAQ up to date, so you may want to bookmark it and check it for updates every now and then. Q: What is Smooth Streaming? A: Smooth Streaming is Microsoft’s implementation of HTTP-based adaptive streaming. Q: What is adaptive streaming? A: It is a hybrid content delivery method which acts like traditional streaming [...]
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Smooth Streaming Beta Released!
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 the uniform Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Smooth Streaming lead Program Manager John Bocharov has a detailed [...]
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Smooth Streaming Architecture
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 in a series of small chunks, allowing the media to get easily and cheaply cached [...]