Contents tagged with VC-1
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Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 announcement roundup
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/overview/media/media-details.aspx#smooth
Expression Encoder 3 overview:
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder_Overview.aspx
Extensive blog post about Expression Encoder 3 new features (it is awesome):
http://blogs.msdn.com/expressionencoder/archive/2009/07/10/9828866.aspx
Alas, the RC of that isn't available for download quite yet. Soon, I'm told.
And I had this interview on Streaming Media about the new media features:
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My Silverlight 3 preview up at StreamingMedia.com
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 directly to Troy.
As Troy alwasy ends the interviews:
Submit your Silverlight questions to Streaming Media’s Formats, Codecs, and Players forum, or send them directly to the author at -
NAB Day 1: Smooth Streaming released, Partners, 1080p in SL3, new VC-1
Which is a huge swath of the professional compression tools market.
DRM service provider support
And we've had a bunch of support for Silverlight DRM powered by PlayReady from DRM service providers. Since Silverlight encryption is applied during content creation, not during content distribution, using DRM has no real impact on the server side; access to a DRM license server to provide licenses to the Silverlight client is the only big difference from a service perspective. -
Proposed definition of HD on the web, with examples
The essential Dan Rayburn had a good blog post asking we, Adobe, and the industry overall agree on a definition for HD Video on the web.
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Beta Release of Smooth Streaming!
It’s alive!
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Encoding Big Buck Bunny for SmoothHD.com
So far, Alex Zambelli has had most of the SmoothHD.com fun while I was off on some other projects, but this time he was off on some other projects and I got to do an encode all myself.
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Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1 – Intro and Multibitrate Encoding
Oh, I’m a bad, bad blogger. The Expression Encoder Service Pack 1 has been out for MONTHS, and and it’s cool enough that I haven’t had the time to do it full justice. Oh well, better short than nothing; I’ll just start off with the biggest new feature: multibitrate encoding, including support for Smooth Streaming.