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Debugging Your Custom IIS Transform Manager Task

Nov 14, 2011

Mario Doiron, our lead tester for Transform Manager has posted a great article on how to debug your custom TM Tasks. This is an article that we have been hoping to find the time to get out the door for a while and I’m very pleased to see this get...

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IIS Transform Manager Beta – Using the MP4 to Smooth Task

Apr 29, 2011

With the latest release of the IIS Transform Manager Beta, we added a new “task” and Job Template to convert from standard MP4 files (non-fragmented) to Smooth Streaming format files (fragmented MP4). The benefit of this new task is that you can use a...

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Troubleshoot Live Smooth Streaming Issues

Mar 15, 2011

Sam Zhang is the Dev lead on the IIS Media Services team, and in that role he has the most exposure to troubleshooting and fixing issues with large scale deployments of IIS Media Services. His experience over the past few years of deploying numerous events...

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IIS Media Services 4.0 Released!

Nov 01, 2010

I’m very excited to announce the release of IIS Media Service 4.0! Some of the major features that we are anxious to share this week at the Streaming Media West conference include: Encode once and stream to Silverlight, WP7, iPad, iPhone. Live Smooth...

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Integrating the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor (RCE) with IIS Transform Manager

Jul 27, 2010

My friend Ezequiel Jadib at Southworks is the developer for the Rough Cut Editor solution that is posted up on the MSDN Code Gallery. He’s done a fantastic job of turning some of my early ideas on what the RCE could be into a shipping solution that...

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IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK Beta 2

Jun 18, 2010

Today we released Beta 2 of the Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK 1.0 . The IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK provides application developers the capability to mux encoded video and audio elementary streams into Smooth Streaming fragmented-MP4 format...

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IIS Media Services 4 Beta 1 - Encode once & deliver to (more-than) three screens across multiple file formats & protocols

Jun 11, 2010

Today begins the next wave of updates to IIS Media Services. We released our first beta of Media Services 4 which includes the new support for live and on-demand streaming to Apple devices including the iPod, iPhone, and iPad using the same encoded elementary...

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IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK - Sample Application overview

Mar 15, 2010

The developer for the Smooth Streaming Format SDK, Thales de Cavalho, provided a terrific blog post that walks through the Basic Muxer Sample application in detail. http://blogs.iis.net/thalesc/archive/2010/03/15/iis-smooth-streaming-format-sdk-sample...

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IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK Beta 1 released

Mar 04, 2010

Today, I am pleased to announce the release of Beta 1 of the Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK 1.0 . The IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK provides application developers the capability to mux encoded video and audio elementary streams into Smooth...