Jun 25, 2009
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...
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Tags: IISsilverlightScott Guthrieadvertisingmediaxbox 360
Apr 28, 2009
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...
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Mar 19, 2009
CTV, Canada’s largest private broadcaster, has some great high definition content on their HD Beta site . Using Microsoft’s new Smooth Streaming technology , CTV is using Silverlight and Akamai’s CDN to stream high quality content with no stuttering....
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Mar 11, 2009
Colleagues in the field highlighted a couple of nice broadcast news sites outside the United States using Silverlight. Even better, they aren’t geo-locked so you can have a play with them no matter where you are. And even better if you are French or Italian...
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Nov 16, 2008
One of the useful benefits of IIS 7.0 and the ASP.NET Integrated mode is the ability to protect all content using ASP.NET Forms Authentication. In the past, people would often protect the application pages themselves, and leave images and media content...
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Tags: IIS7IISdevelopmentMedia
May 01, 2008
Managing Service Quality There are many situations under which we would like to impose limits to file serving speed and the number of clients served. For example, a large rogue media file with a huge (faked) bit rate may induce unfair server bandwidth...
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Tags: BRTBit Rate ThrottlingIISBandwidthBit RateMedia PackMedia
Apr 22, 2008
Bit Rate Throttling is the first IIS extension module released in IIS Media Pack. It adds to IIS the capability of per-response bandwidth control for the delivery of media and data contents. The idea for this module initially grew out of the need to serve...
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Feb 27, 2008
Today we released the first Customer Technology Preview of the web playlist module for IIS 7.0. This addition to our media initiatives for IIS, along with the earlier released bit-rate throttling module, provide administrators with a powerful way of delivering...
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Tags: bitrate throttlingmediaweb playlistsIIS