Ben Waggoner's Blog
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NAB 2009 Ben Waggoner Compression Party and booth schedule
I was out sick last week, and I’m not emotionally prepared to admit that NAB is next week.
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Proposed definition of HD on the web, with examples
The essential Dan Rayburn had a good blog post asking we, Adobe, and the industry overall agree on a definition for HD Video on the web.
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March Madness: Silverlight on YouTube and encoding settings
As mentioned previously, the NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament is going on at the moment, being covered by CBS Sports using Silverlight. For readers not from North America, it’s hard to explain how crazy people are for this event. In an extra bonus , a bunch of games are being held here in Portland, Oregon in the first couple rounds. And of course, we’re doing it in Silverlight. The official player is at http://mmod.ncaa.com/video/. Make sure to hit the “HQ” button for the full Silverlight experience.
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Live Smooth Streaming Beta, Inlet's encoder, and the 2010 Winter Olympics
Lots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one.
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Silverlight 3 Beta - What's New for Media
So, Silverlight 3 was released for public beta today, during Scott Guthrie’s keynote at MIX. There will be an on-demand version of it later on at Visitmix.com. There’s tons of info flowing around today, so I’m just going to focus on the media-related news that came out today. I’ll be posting a lot this week; check back for more details as they’re revealed. And feel free to ask questions in the comments area below.
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Akamai's Smooth Streaming officially launched, with customers!
It’s MIX09 this week, so brace yourselves for a deluge of media-related blogging from me.
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Beta Release of Smooth Streaming!
It’s alive!
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Encoding Big Buck Bunny for SmoothHD.com
So far, Alex Zambelli has had most of the SmoothHD.com fun while I was off on some other projects, but this time he was off on some other projects and I got to do an encode all myself.
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Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1 – Intro and Multibitrate Encoding
Oh, I’m a bad, bad blogger. The Expression Encoder Service Pack 1 has been out for MONTHS, and and it’s cool enough that I haven’t had the time to do it full justice. Oh well, better short than nothing; I’ll just start off with the biggest new feature: multibitrate encoding, including support for Smooth Streaming.