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Mario Doiron, our lead tester for Transform Manager has posted a great article on how to debug your custom TM Tasks. 

This is an article that we have been hoping to find the time to get out the door for a while and I’m very pleased to see this get published! 

To use the new MP4 to Smooth Task you need to start out with a set of multi-bitrate encoded MP4 files that meet the requirements for Smooth Streaming encoding:

Sam Zhang is the Dev lead on the IIS Media Services team, and in that role he has the most exposure to troubleshooting and fixing issues with large scale deployments of IIS Media Services. His experience over the past few years of deploying numerous events, including NBC Sunday Night Football and the Olympics, have given him a lot of experience in figuring out what is going right and wrong on the server. 

I’m pleased to post a trackback to a collection of blogs that Sam just published that offer guidance on how to troubleshoot all kinds of issues on IIS Media Services! Enjoy.

I’m very excited to announce the release of IIS Media Service 4.0!  

My friend Ezequiel Jadib at Southworks is the developer for the Rough Cut Editor solution that is posted up on the MSDN Code Gallery.  He’s done a fantastic job of turning some of my early ideas on what the RCE could be into a shipping solution that includes source code and easy extensibility based on the PRISM framework. 

Today we released Beta 2 of the Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK 1.0.

Today begins the next wave of updates to IIS Media Services.  We released our first beta of Media Services 4 which includes the new support for live and on-demand streaming to Apple devices including the iPod, iPhone, and iPad using the same encoded elementary streams that are targeted at your Silverlight clients.  We have also added a number of improvements to IIS Live Smooth Streaming to Silverlight.  In this post, I’ll quickly cover all of the new stuff we released today, point you to our new walkthroughs and give you a preview of the upcoming features and more in-depth walkthroughs we are planning.

The developer for the Smooth Streaming Format SDK, Thales de Cavalho, provided a terrific blog post that walks through the Basic Muxer Sample application in detail.