Contents tagged with H.264
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H.265/HEVC Ratification and 4K Video Streaming
OK, so maybe it was a shorter break from blogging than I expected. As it turns out the world does not stop when I change jobs. ;)
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Announcing Expression Encoder 4 SP1
Just received this news…
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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.
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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 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 [...]