Contents tagged with IIS Media Services
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Microsoft Media Platform Content Manager 1.0 Released
The newly released Microsoft Media Platform Content Manager pulls together an end-to-end video workflow that allows you to create live streaming events, transcode on-demand content, manage and publish video, edit video, and insert mid-roll advertisements. This open-source release can be used by enterprises, educational institutions, and broadcasting companies to manage their video assets using a lightweight and highly-customizable solution built on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Media Platform (MMP) technologies, including Silverlight 4, IIS Media Services 4.0, and Expression Encoder 4.
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IIS Transform Manager 1.0 Beta Released
The long-awaited Beta release of IIS Transform Manager is now available! With this release, we’ve incorporated some great feature requests from a large number of customers who have been running the Alpha release in commercial production for months. In addition to the previous ability to almost instantly convert Smooth Streaming content for use on Apple iOS devices, Transform Manager now also enables you to convert segmented .mp4 files to Smooth Streaming presentations and then apply DRM encryption. Add to this the new ability to scale out across multi-core HPC clusters, plus improved monitoring and management controls, and you have one very high-performance media transform engine at a very low price point.
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Free Passes to the Microsoft workshops at Streaming Media East
At the Streaming Media East show next week, we are holding two half-day workshops on Monday, May 9th, entitled "Upgrading From Windows Media to The Next Generation Microsoft Media Platform" and "Using SharePoint for Video Delivery and Content Management". These workshops normally cost $245 to attend, but we have a few seats to fill, so are giving away five free passes to attendees who work at enterprise companies and are tasked with deploying video.
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Live Webcasting Master Class
Join Microsoft, Adobe, Highwinds, and Conviva for a free Master Class webcast on Live Webcasting. Going beyond production values and product descriptions, this session gets into the "how-to" of delivering cost-effective high quality live events with streaming media. The live webcast will be on March 17th, 2011, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time; the on-demand version of the event will be available starting March 18th.
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Expression Encoder 4 SP1 released with new IIS Smooth Streaming features
The Microsoft Expression Encoder team recently announced the release of Expression Encoder 4 Service Pack 1 (SP1), containing some great new features for live and on-demand IIS Smooth Streaming. As you probably know, Smooth Streaming is a technology that dynamically adjusts playback rates and quality to provide each end user with the highest quality content that their bandwidth and playback device will allow.
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IIS Media Services 4.0 Released
IIS Media Services 4.0 was released yesterday, just in time for Streaming Media West. Coming just one year after the previous major release, IIS Media Services 4.0 allows you to encode once and deliver adaptive streaming content to three screens across multiple file formats and protocols. Keep reading to learn more about the new features, or install it now. -
Microsoft PDC 2010 – Streaming Now using IIS Smooth Streaming
Today is the start of the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2010, and you can view it now – live or on-demand – at www.microsoftpdc.com. Powering the streaming at PDC is IIS Smooth Streaming, part of IIS Media Services. -
Encoding Workshop: Best Practices and Strategies
On Thursday, September 16, StreamingMedia.com is sponsoring an online workshop on Encoding Best Practices and Strategies that will include Allan Poore from the Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Pro team. Delivery technologies such as IIS Smooth Streaming really improve the playback experience, but they assume that you start with high-quality video. The focus of the workshop will be a discussion on the latest tips, tricks, and technologies for making your video look the best it can.
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IIS Smooth Streaming highlighted at IBC
IIS Smooth Streaming, part of IIS Media Services, is one of the unifying themes in the "Digital Marketing & Experiences" section of the Microsoft exhibit at IBC this year. Held each September at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in Amsterdam, IBC is billed as "the premier annual conference and exhibition for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and media content worldwide." Over 1,300 companies exhibit at the show, and over 45,000 attendees are expected during the event, which runs September 9th – 14th. -
Silverlight and Premium Media Experiences
Given the speed at which web technologies seem to be evolving, partners and customers often ask about the roadmap for Silverlight, with many of those conversations centered around premium media experiences. Brad Becker, Director of Product Management, Developer Platforms, has written a blog post on The Future of Silverlight which addresses this and many other questions about Silverlight.