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Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 announcement roundup

So, Silverlight 3 was released today, and the Expression Studio is available in a public release candidate, including the awesome Expression Encoder 2. I'll have a bunch more to say about it, of course, but first off let me just provide links to the important stuff relating to the media side of things. Scott Guthrie's always-excellent blog post roundup: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/07/10/silverlight-3-released.aspx Technical overview of media features: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight...( read more ) Read More...

My Silverlight 3 preview up at StreamingMedia.com

The newest in my "Silverlight Guru" interviews with Troy Dreier is up now. It offers a concise overview of some of the big features we have coming for Silverlight 3 and with our encoding infrastructure. http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11268 And the previous installments are here: http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11188 http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11140 We're doing these roughly once a month, mainly driven by questions from the Streaming Media forums or send...( read more ) Read More...

NAB Day 1: Smooth Streaming released, Partners, 1080p in SL3, new VC-1

So, it's the end of Monday here in Las Vegas, and I've already got Thursday voice. I wish I could explain with a great Vegas story involving cigars and bourbon, but it's actually a nasty virus from my three year old that's been hammering me for a couple of weeks. So I'm skipping the Akamai shindig to rest my voice and get some blogging done. There's lots of big news from Microsoft and our partners around Silverlight that I wanted to link to. This is just the highlights - there's tons more in the...( read more ) Read More...

Silverlight 3, IIS Media Services 3.0, Olympics 2010 - Wow, It Truly Is March Madness!

Though blogging in Las Vegas might sound like a party foul, this has been an amazing week for Silverlight media - so much that I feel a sudden urge to report on it right now, right here. Silverlight 3 Beta A mere 5 months after releasing Silverlight 2 RTW, we have now made Silverlight 3 Beta available [...]...( read more ) Read More...

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. A developer release, not a consumer release Note that this is a developer release...( read more ) Read More...

Come Join Us at MIX 2009!

MIX, Microsoft’s annual conference for Web 2.0 designers and developers - is upon us. This year it will take place March 18-20 at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. If you’re interested in the world of online video streaming (and I guess you are since you’re already reading this blog) and plan on visiting MIX 2009, I suggest you [...]...( read more ) Read More...

Smooth Streaming FAQ

I will try to keep this FAQ up to date, so you may want to bookmark it and check it for updates every now and then. Q: What is Smooth Streaming? A: Smooth Streaming is Microsoft’s implementation of HTTP-based adaptive streaming. Q: What is adaptive streaming? A: It is a hybrid content delivery method which acts like traditional streaming [...]...( read more ) Read More...