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This week, I'm at Streaming Media West in San Jose, California. Seeing the sun, blue skies and relatively warm weather is a pleasant change from the rain swept northwest. Today is a special pre-conference half-day workshop on Live Broadcasting with Silverlight and Windows Media , which my colleague Chris Knowlton is running. We're videotaping it for posterity and will get it posted as soon as we can. On Wednesday morning, Marc Whitten, GM of Xbox Live will be delivering the keynote at 9am and on...( read more ) Read More...
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...
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...
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 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...
Internet is full of videos, and you have a power packed set of tools for IIS to make media streaming top-notch experience. You have IIS Media Pack enabling intelligent progressive downloads, smooth streaming, throttling, etc. You have tools from Microsoft such as Expression Encoder…….. Read the full post at http://blogs.msdn.com/rakkimk/archive/2009/07/30/iis7-to-be-noted-while-using-expression-encoder-to-upload-large-files-to-iis-server.aspx Read More...
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...
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...
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...
The default player is only embedding at 848x wide. So I'll see if I've go the HTML-fu to embed big enough to get the full 1280x720....( read more ) Read More...
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