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Composite Manifest Support for Rough Cut Editing scenarios in SSME

Jan 22, 2010

We released the Beta 2 for the IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit (SSPDK) that contains the SmoothStreamingMediaElement (SSME) interface. With this release we added a fun new feature. We refer to this as Composite Manifest Support for Rough Cut...

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IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 2 released

Jan 15, 2010

Today, we are very both excited and pleased to announce and release a Beta 2 of IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit (SSPDK) 1.0 . With this release are adding support for Fast Forward/Rewind and Rough Cut Editing scenarios in addition to other...

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Building your first Smooth Streaming Player using SSME

Oct 14, 2009

In this post I plan to cover building a very basic Smooth Streaming Player using Smooth Streaming Media Element (SSME) part of Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit. In other words, building a “Hello World” equivalent for Smooth Streaming Client (“Hello...

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IIS Advanced Logging 1.0 Released

Oct 12, 2009

We proudly announce the release of IIS Advanced Logging 1.0. IIS Advanced Logging 1.0 includes the following features: Client-side logging . Advanced Logging builds capabilities into IIS to accept client-side consumption metrics. This provides relevant...

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IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit 1.0 – Beta 1 Released

Oct 09, 2009

Today, we released IIS Media Services 3.0 that supports both On Demand, Live Smooth Streaming and IIS Advanced Logging. Please refer to the announcement of this release in Chris Knowlton’s blog post for details. As a part of this release, we are very...

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Streaming, is this the answer to Piracy?

Jul 14, 2009

As a part of my routine reading exercise, I came across a recent blog post by one of my favorite personalities online – Fred Wilson. In his blog post Fred discusses how streaming is getting the better of piracy. <!--break--> I have to agree, once you...

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Video: TechEd NA 2009 - Advanced Video Delivery with IIS

May 16, 2009

Earlier this week I gave a TechEd session on IIS Media Services - Smooth Streaming, Advanced Logging and the IIS Media Services Ecosystem overall. Thanks to everyone who made it to this talk. It was really nice to have you there and your interest in technology...

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Advanced Logging – How does Real-time logging work?

Mar 20, 2009

We announced and release a Beta for a sparkling new Logging module for IIS at MIX 09. This is a super rich logging module with a lot of functionality that our team will continue to blog about. Today, I wanted to share more technical details on how my...

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IIS Advanced Logging Beta is now Live

Mar 18, 2009

We proudly announce the Beta of IIS Advanced Logging. With Advanced Logging you will be able to capture rich details in your logs and process them in real-time. These capabilities make this feature really compelling by helping you monetize your content...

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The world of Syndication: Atom 1.0 vs. RSS 2.0?

Oct 06, 2008

Syndication has become and inseparable part of the internet. There are two major syndication formats that exist today – RSS 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom 1.0 (Atom Syndication Format). While they achieve the same end result, there are differences...

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Web Playlists SMIL conversion tool

Sep 12, 2008

With the RC version of Web Playlists , we moved from a custom XML format to a SMIL-based format for storing playlists. As a result of this change the old isx format has been retired. However, Brian Blum (a dev) in our team crafted a tool to help convert...

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Web Playlists Release Candidate (RC) Released

Sep 12, 2008

I am pleased to announce that the Web Playlists Release Candidate (RC) release is ready for you to download and deploy. This release supports upgrade from the previous Go Live release. ( Note : It is recommended that if you have a release earlier than...

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Web Playlists - using SMIL as input format

Aug 07, 2008

In our strive to make it utmost convenient for our customers to use Web Playlists, we are considering another feature. In my last post I discussed the option of being able to configure the output format for Web Playlists and use open standards like ATOM...

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Web Playlists output format

Jul 26, 2008

We recently release the Go Live of Web Playlists module and I am sure a lot of you are already beginning to realize the potential of this feature. After the release our very smart set of engineers are figuring what can we do with this feature next? There...

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Making Web Playlists URLs better with URL Rewrite module

Jul 22, 2008

I have been recently reading about the entire RESTful web services and constantly looking at how we can make our modules more REST friendly in terms of URL look-n-feel and also the output they return (if any). I blogged about RESTful web services in case...

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Vishal Sood is a Program Manager in the IIS team. He works in the IIS Media Services team and works cool features like Smooth Streaming (Live), Advanced Logging and Intelligent Progressive Download.

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