May 01, 2008
Web Playlists! CTP2 been out there for a little more than a week now and some of you simply love it. Others, I am sure love it but I just don't know about that. Some others wonder how it works and the documentation available is a drop in the ocean. Firstly...
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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
Apr 29, 2008
If you read my post / walkthroughs you probably know about the extensibility interface shipped with CTP2. You can use that to integrate into existing business logic applications or web applications. However, in this post I am going to talk about a shortcut...
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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
Apr 22, 2008
Bit Rate Throttling was Brian's pick of the week on channel 9. We love you Brian :) Here is the link to video and the post on the site - Click (To see the relevant section in the video seek to around 16:28 into the video.) Here is the excerpt from the...
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Filed under: Media, Bit Rate Throttling, IIS Media Pack
Apr 22, 2008
In my blog post yesterday I mentioned that we will be releasing sample code written by our teams as reference. Here is the first one. Prakash blogged about a custom provider that provides a wrapper playlist like functionality through a simple playlist...
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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
Apr 22, 2008
I am really happy to announce that Web Playlists CTP2 is now released. Web Playlists CTP2 builds on top of CTP1 release that we had in February. It has the following additional features Extensibility through custom providers – We are releasing interfaces...
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Filed under: Media, IIS News Item, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
Mar 21, 2008
Last week, we announced the release of Bit Rate Throttling (BRT) module and there has been a lot of positive feedback already. I love the way the world of media latches on to new things so fast. Scott Guthrie posted about the release in his blog here...
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Filed under: Media, Bit Rate Throttling, IIS Media Pack, BRT
Mar 17, 2008
In the latest RTW release of Bit Rate Throttling, we have an amazing feature - dynamic throttling. It can also be looked at as bandwidth splitting. The primary intentions of this post is to serve as an introduction to this feature. In our earlier releases...
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Filed under: Media, Bit Rate Throttling, IIS Media Pack, dynamic throttling
Mar 15, 2008
Bit Rate Throttling is now out of Beta. We are really pleased to announced the release of IIS Media Pack Bit Rate Throttling Download Links 32 bit - http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1640 64 bit - http://www.iis.net/downloads...
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Filed under: Media, IIS News Item, Bit Rate Throttling, IIS Media Pack
Mar 06, 2008
During today's keynote, Scott Guthrie discussed web, media, RIA and mobile. He announced the release of Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 too. He specifically talked about how Silverlight 2.0 helps improve HD user experience , improve TCO and offers monetization...
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Filed under: Media, Windows Media Services, Bit Rate Throttling, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack, MIX, MIX08, Expression Blend, Atlas, Silverlight, Visual Studio
Feb 28, 2008
Yesterday, we launched the first CTP of Web Playlists, a server-side playlist solution for progressive download scenarios. The Web Playlists enables key scenarios and is totally format agnostic. If you have media on your IIS server, Web Playlists has...
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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
Dec 06, 2007
I am happy to announce that Windows Media Services (WMS) 2008 RC1 is now live. This version of WMS will install only on Windows Server 2008 RC1 version. In addition to Cache Proxy Plug-in and Sever Core installation option, Windows Media Services RC1...
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Filed under: Media, Windows Media Services, IIS News Item
Sep 24, 2007
I am happy to announce that Windows Media Services (WMS) 2008 RC0 is now live. This version of WMS will install only on Windows Server 2008 RC0 version. Windows Media Services for Windows Server 2008 boasts of a Cache Proxy Plug-in and support for the...
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Filed under: Media, Windows Media Services, IIS News Item
Jul 29, 2007
I was participating in the Ask the Experts (ATE) session for Tech Ready last week and it just showed me how bad we have been at marketing some of our powerful features. Tech Ready is an internal conference for Microsoft employees where employees in the...
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Filed under: Media, Windows Media Services
Jul 13, 2007
During my chat with several people using Windows Media Services, I realized that very few actually know about Server Side playlists . I will be focusing on this subject over the next few posts and try to de -mystify it a little. Definition : Server-side...
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Filed under: Media, Windows Media Services