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Overcoming the Challenges Enterprises Face with Streaming Video

On Thursday, December 10 th , 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. I will be presenting with Dan Rayburn from Streaming Media and Peter Evans from Internap . Find out how to: Create better video experiences for enterprise end-users Provide higher quality audio and video with fewer bits Compare multicast, unicast, and adaptive streaming approaches Use innovative network solutions to reach your end users, wherever they are To learn more or sign up for this free webcast, follow this link . Read More...

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... What Smooth Streaming is and why it is the future of online video delivery How Smooth Streaming delivers HDTV-quality experiences over HTTP How it has been successfully implemented for major live events and on-demand content The end-to-end steps for delivering your content with Smooth Streaming IIS Smooth Streaming is part of the recently-released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. Part of that release was the beta of the Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, which allows developers to easily create Smooth Streaming experiences using Silverlight. I will be co-presenting with Jaime Miles from Level 3, with whom we worked on Smooth Streaming of many high-visibilty live...

IIS Media Services 3.0, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, has been released

What Just Happened? We just released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging package. In addition, we released the beta of the Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, which allows developers to easily create Smooth Streaming experiences using Silverlight. Supported features include PlayReady, DVR controls, instant replay, slow motion, multiple camera angles, alternate audio tracks, content protection, ad integration, in-stream data feeds, and more. Market Impact Since April, 2009, key broadcasters around the world have used beta versions of IIS Media Services 3.0 to successfully broadcast some of the world's premier live events. These include the Tour de France and the Roland Garros 2009 International French Open Tennis Tournament on France Télévisions; the IAAF Athletics World Championships...

RTW of Live Smooth Streaming is now… Live.

We’re excited to announce that IIS Media Services 3.0, which includes the RTW of Live Smooth Streaming is now available for download ( WebPI , x86 , x64 ). This release builds on the Beta’s functionality that delivered: Smooth bit-rate switching that provides your users the best possible quality at that moment in time Massive scalability through the use of cacheable HTTP Integrated Network DVR The team has been hard at work since the Beta making the product better. So what’s new in RTW? Here are the highlights... High Availability – multi-tier scalability and failover 24/7 and long-running event support Ad insertion support Try it out today by following the steps in one of the following walkthroughs: Getting Started with Live Smooth Streaming Creating and Managing Publishing Points Live Smooth Streaming for IIS 7.0 - Syndicating Content between Servers You can also download the new Smooth Streaming Deployment Guide for a step-by-step description of the encoding, server, and client set up...

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. Today, we issued a press release highlighting this momentum and giving a preview of what we'll be demonstrating at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam later this week. To enable third parties who wish to build on IIS Smooth Streaming and the broader Microsoft media platform, we also released two specifications under the Community Promise Initiative: The IIS Smooth Streaming Transport Protocol Specification describes how live and on-demand Smooth Streaming audio/video content is distributed and cached over an HTTP network. The Protected Interoperable File Format (PIFF) specification...

TIm Harader and John Bishop in Live HD web event Thur the 16th

So, Millimeter is hosting a live web event about Live Smooth Streaming, featuring the always-awesome John Bishop of Inlet and our own (also excellent) Tim Harader. With those two together, expect an hour of real-world experience and context with awesome technical details and delivered with a charming Carolina lilt. It's Thursday, July 16th, at 2pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -5) You can register here: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=153230&sessionid...( read more ) Read More...

Live Smooth Streaming: Try It Now, No Encoder Required

Announced at the MIX09 keynote , Live Smooth Streaming was released for download ( WebPI , x86 , x64 ) on Wednesday. You don’t need a live encoder to try this at home. Read below for the how… What is Live Smooth Streaming? Live Smooth Streaming provides the same great user experience as its Video On-Demand counterpart, using the same scalable delivery method that takes full advantage of commodity HTTP caches. In short, a user experience that… Starts playback and seeks instantly Does not stop to buffer Deliver the best quality your bandwidth and CPU allow at the moment Live Smooth Streaming archives incoming data and provides a full Network Digital Video Recorder (DVR). It works just like a TiVo for online video, with support for replay, pause, and jumping back to the live broadcast. If you start watching a broadcast late, you can always jump back to see what you missed, and then resume watching the live broadcast. How can I try Live Smooth Streaming? See the “ Getting Started ” walkthrough...