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The world of Syndication: Atom 1.0 vs. RSS 2.0?
Syndication has become and inseparable part of the internet. There are two major syndication formats that exist today – RSS 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom 1.0 (Atom Syndication Format). While they achieve the same end result, there are differences. This post attempts to enable you to decide which is more suited to your publishing. -
Web Playlists SMIL conversion tool
With the RC version of Web Playlists, we moved from a custom XML format to a SMIL-based format for storing playlists. As a result of this change the old isx format has been retired. However, Brian Blum (a dev) in our team crafted a tool to help convert the old files. The tool can be downloaded here. Thank you Brian!
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Web Playlists Release Candidate (RC) Released
I am pleased to announce that the Web Playlists Release Candidate (RC) release is ready for you to download and deploy.
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Web Playlists - using SMIL as input format
In our strive to make it utmost convenient for our customers to use Web Playlists, we are considering another feature. In my last post I discussed the option of being able to configure the output format for Web Playlists and use open standards like ATOM as possible output in addition to ASX today. We are actually thinking of allowing you to add a XSLT and then be able to configure the output format of your choice that way.
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Web Playlists output format
We recently release the Go Live of Web Playlists module and I am sure a lot of you are already beginning to realize the potential of this feature.
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Making Web Playlists URLs better with URL Rewrite module
I have been recently reading about the entire RESTful web services and constantly looking at how we can make our modules more REST friendly in terms of URL look-n-feel and also the output they return (if any). I blogged about RESTful web services in case anyone is interested in knowing more about REST.
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Web Playlists Go Live release is now ready for downloads
I am really excited to announce that Web Playlists Go Live was just released to public. Here are the download links for the same:
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Web Playlists - How does that thing work?
Web Playlists! CTP2 been out there for a little more than a week now and some of you simply love it. Others, I am sure love it but I just don't know about that. Some others wonder how it works and the documentation available is a drop in the ocean. Firstly, we are working on providing more docs so please bear with us for the time being. If you need to know about something in specifc, let me know through forums.iis.net or simply post a comment here.
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Short-cut to integrate Web Playlists with an existing web application
If you read my post / walkthroughs you probably know about the extensibility interface shipped with CTP2. You can use that to integrate into existing business logic applications or web applications. However, in this post I am going to talk about a shortcut, you don't have to write a custom provider if you don't want to. Don't you love shortcuts? If you don't like dealing with new interfaces I am sure you would love that.
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Bit Rate Throttling is the pick of the week on Channel 9
Bit Rate Throttling was Brian's pick of the week on channel 9. We love you Brian :)
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Exploring Custom providers - Wrapper playlists
In my blog post yesterday I mentioned that we will be releasing sample code written by our teams as reference. Here is the first one.
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IIS 7 Media Pack Web Playlists Customer Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) is Live
I am really happy to announce that Web Playlists CTP2 is now released.
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Bit Rate Throttling is 1 week old - some interesting thoughts and applications
Last week, we announced the release of Bit Rate Throttling (BRT) module and there has been a lot of positive feedback already. I love the way the world of media latches on to new things so fast.
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Dynamic Throttling with Bit Rate Throttling
In the latest RTW release of Bit Rate Throttling, we have an amazing feature - dynamic throttling. It can also be looked at as bandwidth splitting. The primary intentions of this post is to serve as an introduction to this feature.
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Bit Rate Throttling is now released
Bit Rate Throttling is now out of Beta. We are really pleased to announced the release of IIS Media Pack Bit Rate Throttling
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Mix 08 Keynote - Media initiatives
During today's keynote, Scott Guthrie discussed web, media, RIA and mobile. He announced the release of Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 too. He specifically talked about how Silverlight 2.0 helps improve HD user experience, improve TCO and offers monetization opportunities for media. This is big step that helps our customers to enable their users have a better experience on their sites
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IIS 7 Media Pack Web Playlists is Live
Yesterday, we launched the first CTP of Web Playlists, a server-side playlist solution for progressive download scenarios. The Web Playlists enables key scenarios and is totally format agnostic. If you have media on your IIS server, Web Playlists has a way for you to distribute it. We are really excited as we continue to work on this feature and hope this really adds value to your business.
