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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Filed under: Atom
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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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
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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Filed under: Media, IIS News Item, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
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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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists
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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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack, ASX
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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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
Jul 21, 2008
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...
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Filed under: Media, IIS News Item, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
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