Silverlight Streaming
You may or may not have heard of a new service from Microsoft called Silverlight Streaming. Its an interesting service with the ability to stream video through the Silverlight media control. It also seems to be a mechanism for Microsoft to compete with Google in the area of user video.
Recently I have been playing with producing the podcast in Flash. As a result, I have been getting needled because I don't have it available in Silverlight. Well, I checked out the Silverlight Streaming service. Here's what I have discovered so far:
- Is there an easy way to add the necessary control to Community Server? I would think so, but I haven't experimented with it yet. any info on how to add the control would be helpful.
- The free silverlight streaming product only supports upto 10 minutes of video. Well, the podcast can take over 10 minutes, so thats out. I thought that this was interesting, however, I looked at this from the standpoint of the marketplace and it made complete sense. YouTube has a 10 minute video restriction also.
- There will be a for-pay Silverlight Streaming service. That sounds interesting, but how can I then support direct download of the podcast? What about support for the iTunes podcatcher.
Anyway, just a few things I thought I would throw out.