Contents tagged with compression
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My Silverlight 3 preview up at StreamingMedia.com
The newest in my "Silverlight Guru" interviews with Troy Dreier is up now. It offers a concise overview of some of the big features we have coming for Silverlight 3 and with our encoding infrastructure.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11268
And the previous installments are here:
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11188
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11140
We're doing these roughly once a month, mainly driven by questions from the Streaming Media forums or send directly to Troy.
As Troy alwasy ends the interviews:
Submit your Silverlight questions to Streaming Media’s Formats, Codecs, and Players forum, or send them directly to the author at -
NAB Day 1: Smooth Streaming released, Partners, 1080p in SL3, new VC-1
Which is a huge swath of the professional compression tools market.
DRM service provider support
And we've had a bunch of support for Silverlight DRM powered by PlayReady from DRM service providers. Since Silverlight encryption is applied during content creation, not during content distribution, using DRM has no real impact on the server side; access to a DRM license server to provide licenses to the Silverlight client is the only big difference from a service perspective. -
Compressionist Party Details - Encore Tower Suite 1805
Okay, as promised here's the actual location of the Compressionist Party tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21.
It's at the Encore at Wynn (aka "Wynn Encore" and "Encore Las Vegas") Tower Suite 1805.
As promised 6-9 pm. There should be some beverages and light snacks.
RSVP isn't required, but it'd be great if you could email me if you think you're coming so I can make sure we're set up adequately. -
March Madness: Silverlight on YouTube and encoding settings
As mentioned previously, the NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament is going on at the moment, being covered by CBS Sports using Silverlight. For readers not from North America, it’s hard to explain how crazy people are for this event. In an extra bonus , a bunch of games are being held here in Portland, Oregon in the first couple rounds. And of course, we’re doing it in Silverlight. The official player is at http://mmod.ncaa.com/video/. Make sure to hit the “HQ” button for the full Silverlight experience.
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Beta Release of Smooth Streaming!
It’s alive!
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Encoding Big Buck Bunny for SmoothHD.com
So far, Alex Zambelli has had most of the SmoothHD.com fun while I was off on some other projects, but this time he was off on some other projects and I got to do an encode all myself.
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Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1 – Intro and Multibitrate Encoding
Oh, I’m a bad, bad blogger. The Expression Encoder Service Pack 1 has been out for MONTHS, and and it’s cool enough that I haven’t had the time to do it full justice. Oh well, better short than nothing; I’ll just start off with the biggest new feature: multibitrate encoding, including support for Smooth Streaming.