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

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...

Web Playlists SMIL conversion tool

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...

Web Playlists Release Candidate (RC) Released

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...

Web Playlists - using SMIL as input format

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...

Web Playlists output format

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...

Making Web Playlists URLs better with URL Rewrite module

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...

Web Playlists Go Live release is now ready for downloads

I am really excited to announce that Web Playlists Go Live was just released to public. Here are the download links for the same: Web Playlist for IIS 7.0, 64 Bit (x64) Web Playlist for IIS 7.0, 32 Bit (x86) Here is a list of walkthroughs published on...

Web Playlists - How does that thing work?

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...

Short-cut to integrate Web Playlists with an existing web application

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...

Bit Rate Throttling is the pick of the week on Channel 9

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...

Exploring Custom providers - Wrapper playlists

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...

IIS 7 Media Pack Web Playlists Customer Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) is Live

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...

Bit Rate Throttling is 1 week old - some interesting thoughts and applications

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...

Dynamic Throttling with Bit Rate Throttling

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...

Bit Rate Throttling is now released

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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Vishal Sood is a Program Manager in the IIS team. He is currently working on the media initiatives within the team. This includes Windows Media Services and IIS Media Pack - Bit Rate Throttling and Web Playlists.

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