Ben Waggoner's Blog : IIS

TIm Harader and John Bishop in Live HD web event Thur the 16th

Ben Waggoner — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:02:00 GMT

So, Millimeter is hosting a live web event about Live Smooth Streaming, featuring the always-awesome John Bishop of Inlet and our own (also excellent) Tim Harader. With those two together, expect an hour of real-world experience and context with awesome...(read more)

Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 announcement roundup

Ben Waggoner — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:35:00 GMT

So, Silverlight 3 was released today, and the Expression Studio is available in a public release candidate, including the awesome Expression Encoder 2. I'll have a bunch more to say about it, of course, but first off let me just provide links to the important...(read more)

My Silverlight 3 preview up at StreamingMedia.com

Ben Waggoner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:11:00 GMT

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...(read more)

My Michael Jackson Player

Ben Waggoner — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:46:00 GMT

The default player is only embedding at 848x wide. So I'll see if I've go the HTML-fu to embed big enough to get the full 1280x720....(read more)

Michael Jackson Memorial in live HD Smooth Streaming July 7th 10am PDT

Ben Waggoner — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:39:00 GMT

Just got some news: tomorrow's Michael Jackson memorial is going to be broadcast live in 720p Smooth Streaming by Sympatico / MSN inMusic . The feed is originating from Canada, but is not georestricted! I think this is the first globally available Live...(read more)

Wimbledon Championships in live 720p

Ben Waggoner — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:33:21 GMT

One of the things distracting me from blogging lately has now been announced: the Wimbledon Championships are going to be live HD in Silverlight starting today (Saturday June 27th). Full details (once again) at the Silverlight Team Blog . This is going...(read more)

Silverlight on Xbox 360 demo at Cannes

Ben Waggoner — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:33:00 GMT

Some of you have asked me about Scott Guthrie's twitter mention of the Xbox 360 Silverlight advertising demo at Cannes. So, yes, Silverlight 3 is coming to the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. We're mainly discussing this in the context of advertising at this...(read more)

Project Starlight: Multicast Plug-in for Silverlight

Ben Waggoner — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:07:00 GMT

It’s Streaming Media East this week. Alas, I’m racing towards a book deadline, and so am skipping the show for the first time in years. I miss it; it’s long been one my favorite shows of the year, and an extremely productive place to meet with customers...(read more)

First Moonlight 2.0 Preview Out – with Smooth Streaming

Ben Waggoner — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:27:00 GMT

Novell has just released the first Moonlight 2.0 Preview , dubbed Moonlight 1.9. It adds a bunch of new Silverlight 2 features, and offers compatibility with many more sites. Near and dear to my heart, it supports Smooth Streaming . Deep Zoom is also...(read more)

First Smooth Streaming User-Generated Content

Ben Waggoner — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:21:00 GMT

So, this is irrationally exciting for me; what's perhaps the first UGC (user-generated content) in Smooth Streaming. Two of our awesome evangelists, Tim Heuer and Arturo Toldeo were in New Zealand for WEB09 . They were invited to do a code-off with three...(read more)

Cool Smooth Streaming demo site from CDNetworks

Ben Waggoner — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:09:00 GMT

Our friends at CDNetworks announced their adoption of Smooth Streaming last week. And now they’ve have made a very cool new Smooth Streaming demo site: http://www.nextcdn.com/Silverlight.htm . It builds on the SmoothHD and IIS.net demos with a very nice...(read more)

NAB Day 1: Smooth Streaming released, Partners, 1080p in SL3, new VC-1

Ben Waggoner — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:05:00 GMT

So, it's the end of Monday here in Las Vegas, and I've already got Thursday voice. I wish I could explain with a great Vegas story involving cigars and bourbon, but it's actually a nasty virus from my three year old that's been hammering me for a couple...(read more)

NAB 2009 Ben Waggoner Compression Party and booth schedule

Ben Waggoner — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:51:05 GMT

I was out sick last week, and I’m not emotionally prepared to admit that NAB is next week. But it shall be, and once again, I shall be there. Compressionist Party: Tuesday, April 21st, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm And, as many of you have emailed me to ask about...(read more)

Live Smooth Streaming Beta, Inlet's encoder, and the 2010 Winter Olympics

Ben Waggoner — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:03:00 GMT

Live Smooth Streaming Lots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one. First, as part of Scott Guthrie’s keynote yesterday (now with transcript ), we announced that live streaming is coming for Smooth...(read more)

Silverlight 3 Beta - What's New for Media

Ben Waggoner — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:41:00 GMT

So, Silverlight 3 was released for public beta today, during Scott Guthrie’s keynote at MIX. There will be an on-demand version of it later on at Visitmix.com . There’s tons of info flowing around today, so I’m just going to focus on the media-related...(read more)