Contents tagged with Live Smooth Streaming
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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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Live Beach Volleyball brought to you by Ooyala, IIS, and Silverlight
The AVP Nivea Tour Hermosa Beach Open volleyball tournament is being broadcast today with a new Microsoft Silverlight player by Ooyala. As with past AVP events, this tournament is again being delivered using IIS Smooth Streaming. The new Ooyala player, pictured below, includes four live streams that you can switch between instantly. Check out the tournament, the player, and the Smooth Streaming experience at http://bit.ly/avpTV.
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Live Smooth Streaming infrastructure and advertising for the 2010 Olympics
Microsoft and its partners provided an infrastructure that helped to provide NBC, the Canadian television company (CTV), and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) with streaming content of the 2010 Winter Olympics. A new article titled NBC Online Video Monetization and Highlights Creation for the 2010 Winter Olympics describes the general IT architecture and tools used to support these three broadcasters, and offers specific details about how NBC inserted midstream ads in both the live video and video-on-demand (VOD) scenarios and created and delivered highlight clips.
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Expression Encoder 4, just released, supports IIS Live Smooth Streaming
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2010 French Open powered by IIS Live Smooth Streaming and Silverlight
Frances Télévisions and Eurosport have selected Silverlight and IIS Live Smooth Streaming to deliver online webcasting of the 2010 French Open at Roland Garros. This event, which runs through June 6, 2010, follows up on previous IIS Live Smooth Streaming successes that both Frances Télévisions and Eurosport have had with similar high-visibility events over the last year.
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Overcoming the Challenges Enterprises Face with Streaming Video
On Thursday, December 10th, 2009, please join me for a free live Web broadcast on ways to use new and existing media technologies to solve video delivery challenges in the enterprise. If you are considering how to deploy high-quality live and on-demand video to an enterprise, this webcast is for you.
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Webinar: How to Deliver True HD with Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming
On Thursday, October 15th, we will be presenting a webinar entitled "How to Deliver True HD with Silverlight and Smooth Streaming." During the one-hour webinar, we'll cover the following topics...
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IIS Media Services 3.0, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, has been released
What Just Happened?
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Smooth Streaming specifications now posted on-line
Smooth Streaming and Live Smooth Streaming, both part of IIS Media Services 3.0, have been generating a lot of interest from content owners who want to provide a seamless viewing experience up to 1080p for their end users. Even in the Beta stage of Live Smooth Streaming, there have been dozens of live trials at high-visibility events, such as the French Open and the FIFA Confederations Cup.