Jul 10, 2009
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...
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Tags: Silverlight 3H.264IISsilverlightExpression EncoderVC-1mediaNBC Universal
Jul 09, 2009
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...
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Tags: Smooth StreamingSilverlight 3H.264IISsilverlightExpression EncoderVC-1compressionmediaStreaming Media
May 02, 2009
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...
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Tags: Smooth StreamingIISsilverlightExpression EncoderTim HeuerNigel ParkerArturo ToldeoUGC
Apr 14, 2009
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...
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Feb 25, 2009
I am pleased to announce the availability of Smooth Streaming beta! The hot new media extension for IIS7 can now be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/extensions/SmoothStreaming, in both x86 and x64 flavors. The Smooth Streaming beta is also available...
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Feb 24, 2009
It’s alive! The IIS team has just released the first public beta of the Smooth Streaming module for IIS7 . This means anyone with Windows Server 2008 can start experimenting with this next generation media delivery technology for Silverlight. We’re aiming...
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Feb 22, 2009
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. I figured this was as good a time as go through a hands-on project...
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Tags: Smooth StreamingSmoothHD.comIISsilverlightExpression EncoderVC-1compressionNerditryBig Buck Bunny
Feb 04, 2009
In my last post I talked about the history of multi-bitrate streaming and how we got from RTSP and HTTP streaming back to HTTP download as the primary media web distribution mechanism. In this post we’ll take a closer look at how adaptive streaming...
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