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Streaming Media West

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:38:41 GMT

This week, I'm at Streaming Media West in San Jose, California. Seeing the sun, blue skies and relatively warm weather is a pleasant change from the rain swept northwest.
Today is a special pre-conference half-day workshop on Live Broadcasting with Silverlight and Windows Media, which my colleague Chris Knowlton is running. We're videotaping it for posterity and will get it posted as soon as we can.
On Wednesday morning, Marc Whitten, GM of Xbox Live will be delivering the keynote at 9am and on Wednesday afternoon, Steven Woodward from Microsoft and Mike Moser from Vertigo will be delivering a special session on real-world Smooth Streaming using a very recent and timely event as an example.
The exhibition runs Tuesday evening through Thursday afternoon and we'll have a special 20 minute presentation of Smooth Streaming on the show floor on Thursday at 1pm.
If you want to attend the conference or exhibition and don't yet have a pass, you can register at a discounted rate by going to https://secure.infotoday.com/forms/default.aspx?form=smw2009 and using the VIPMSFT as the promo code.

Tech-Ed Japan Smooth Streamed

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:06:06 GMT

Tech-Ed Japan 2009 has embraced Smooth Streaming. You can watch the keynote (in Japanese) for a few more days here. Enjoy!

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

Anonymous — 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 technical details and delivered with a charming Carolina lilt.

It's Thursday, July 16th, at 2pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -5)

You can register here:
https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=153230&sessionid=1&key=00ED2EDFCB275415AFB7059389F8B18B&partnerref=mminlethdv4&sourcepage=register

Full description:

Learn how to deliver web video with the quality and reliability of HDTV. Dramatically increase viewing times and repeat visits using this scalable online video delivery technology.

Standard video on the Web is plagued by 2 major issues: the quality of the video (either too small or too blurry) and the reliability of the playback (constant rebuffering or stuttering). These two variables are interrelated: increasing the quality requires higher bandwidth, and using less bandwidth to minimize rebuffering sacrifices video quality.

Smooth Streaming solves these issues by dynamically modifying the bandwidth of the video stream based on available bandwidth and individual PC performance. This process is invisible to viewers; they just connect to the live event. If bandwidth drops, the video seamlessly transitions to the next lower stream. When the bandwidth recovers, the stream will automatically use the higher bandwidth. This enables the viewer to watch the live event in the best possible quality at all times, without pauses or interruptions in the video stream.

During this webcast, you will learn about Smooth Streaming from two industry experts, who will teach you:

What Smooth Streaming is and why it is the future of online video delivery

How Smooth Streaming delivers HDTV-quality experiences

How it has been successfully implemented for major live events

How to start delivering your content with Smooth Streaming

Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 announcement roundup

Anonymous — 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 stuff relating to the media side of things.

Scott Guthrie's always-excellent blog post roundup:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/07/10/silverlight-3-released.aspx

Technical overview of media features:
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/overview/media/media-details.aspx#smooth

Expression Encoder 3 overview:
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder_Overview.aspx

Extensive blog post about Expression Encoder 3 new features (it is awesome):
http://blogs.msdn.com/expressionencoder/archive/2009/07/10/9828866.aspx

Alas, the RC of that isn't available for download quite yet. Soon, I'm told.

And I had this interview on Streaming Media about the new media features:
http://streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11268

My Silverlight 3 preview up at StreamingMedia.com

Anonymous — 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

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 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 HD Smooth Streaming event.

The event kicks off at 10am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -8). It will hopefully be up as on-demand for 24 hours after, but we're still confirming the rights for that.

Check back tomorrow AM for any updates.

P.S. The Tour de France is also doing Live HD Smooth Streaming, following the success of the French Open. It's georestricted to France, alas.

RAI Smooth Streaming

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:17:00 GMT

A nice demo of SD content using Smooth Streaming:

http://www.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/hd/raitvhd.html?v=1

Silverlight on Xbox 360 demo at Cannes

Anonymous — 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 point.

We've got some more info up about it at the (reliably interesting and informative) Silverlight Team Blog.

There's plenty to read there, but here's the overview:

On Tuesday, June 22nd at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2009, Microsoft announced it will bring Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) recognized rich media technologies including Silverlight to Xbox LIVE within the next year. By extending support to technologies like Silverlight, Xbox LIVE will offer advertisers and creative designers scale and reach with their campaign creative assets, enabling them to build and deliver interactive, interconnected experiences that are unlike anything else on television, and extend these experiences across multiple screens – the TV, the PC, and Mobile.

CDNetworks Does Smooth Streaming

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:39:00 GMT

CDNetworks, a Korea-based CDN has introduced support for Smooth Streaming and it looks great! You can check it out for yourself by visiting http://www.nextsmooth.com.

What’s particularly nice is the demo player shown above. You can see high-quality movie trailers, which have been encoded at seven different bitrates. In the screenshot above you can see how Smooth Streaming steps up the quality level (by selecting a higher bitrate stream) as network and CPU utilization conditions permit. A unique features of the CDNetworks Silverlight player is the “magnifying glass” that you can see above. You can move this around the video and inspect it more closely. You can even adjust the magnification! Finally, take a look at the timeline at the bottom; as you hover over it with your mouse, a still thumbnail of the video at that point (actually I-frame) is shown.

Great work guys – awesome demo app and fantastic use of the technology!