Contents tagged with Olympics
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IIS Transform Manager 1.0 and Windows 8 Updates
The long awaited 1.0 release of IIS Transform Manager (which for a while there seemed stuck in GMail-like alpha/beta development) finally hit the Web last week! You can download it and read more about its features here: http://www.iis.net/download/transformmanager
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Now available: Expression Encoder 4, IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta, SSME 1.0, SMF 2.0 RC1, Olympics case studies
While most of the world is on a collective vacation watching the World Cup, media teams at Microsoft have been busy at work. And watching the World Cup.
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Streaming the Olympics: How We Got Here
Though it may seem like it was just yesterday, it’s now been 18 months since we delivered for NBC the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics using Windows Media Services, Windows Media Player and Silverlight. Whereas in Beijing we experimented with HTTP adaptive streaming for on-demand SD delivery only, the one thing we all knew for sure as soon as the Beijing closing ceremony was over was that for Vancouver 2010 we wanted to deliver all video in HD, both live and on-demand, using HTTP adaptive streaming. By November 2008 the first glimpses of IIS Smooth Streaming definitely put on-demand HD delivery within reach, and by May 2009 live Smooth Streaming was a reality too.
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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 [...]
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The Birth of Smooth Streaming
In my last post I talked about the history of multi-bitrate streaming and how we got from RTSP and HTTP streaming back to HTTP download as the primary media web distribution mechanism. In this post we’ll take a closer look at how adaptive streaming differs from traditional streaming (i.e. RTSP) and plain progressive download. Traditional Streaming Let’s [...]