Alex Zambelli's Silverlight Media Blog
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The Birth of Smooth Streaming
In my last post I talked about the history of multi-bitrate streaming and how we got from RTSP and HTTP streaming back to HTTP download as the primary media web distribution mechanism. In this post we’ll take a closer look at how adaptive streaming differs from traditional streaming (i.e. RTSP) and plain progressive download. Traditional Streaming Let’s [...]
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A Brief History of Multi-Bitrate Streaming
It’s been a while since I last posted. Probably the most significant news from Microsoft regarding Silverlight media since IBC (when we announced H.264/AAC support in Silverlight 3) has been on the IIS and Expression fronts. The Expression Encoder team released Service Pack 1 for Encoder 2 in October, which really should’ve been called a [...]