A number of us from Microsoft will be meeting with customers and staffing the booth at the NAB Show again this year, including folks who work on Windows Media Services 2008 , IIS 7.0 Media Pack , Silverlight 2 , Expression Studio 2 , Interactive Media Manager , Windows HPC Server 2008 , Windows Media...

Over the long weekend I made some excellent progress in my online video production work. I managed to significantly improve the quality of my YouTube videos and I explored Microsoft Expression Encoder and Silverlight Streaming. I found some excellent tips on how to improve the quality of my videos for...

How do you host your video content created with Expression Encoder on Silverlight Streaming ? The first answer is wait for the plugin that will let you do that: Coming Soon Publish directly to Silverlight Streaming. If you can't wait take a look at Silverlight Streaming SDK that tell you how to do it...

If you are a lucky MSDN Universal subscriber then you can get Expression Encoder ( released yesterday with Silverlight 1.0 ) for free. How ? Juts use the key you have for Expression Studio delivered on MSDN Subscriber Downloads, on the page Subscription Product Keys. This was posted on the newsgroup...

Since we announced our new IIS Smooth Streaming extension last October with Akamai , we've been spending a lot of time engaging with very-interested customers and partners. In the course of these discussions, we hear a lot of frequently asked questions about Smooth Streaming, usually along these...

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...

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...

I am pleased to announce the availability of Smooth Streaming beta! The hot new media extension for IIS7 can now be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/extensions/SmoothStreaming, in both x86 and x64 flavors. The Smooth Streaming beta is also available for install through the uniform Microsoft Web Platform...

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...

If you were unable to attend MIX 2009, you’ll be pleased to know that the videos of sessions are already appearing online: https://content.visitmix.com/2009/sessions/. Here are the links to the videos of sessions I had previously mentioned: What’s New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 Speaker: Joe...