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• Introducing Video.Show: A Silverlight Reference-quality Sample

  One of the favorite things about my job is being able to share really cool new content with you all, and so today is a good day to end the week on! Since we completed the Family.Show WPF reference sample, we've been working away in partnership with a great developer team from Vertigo Software on a Silverlight video scenario, and today is the day when we get to open it up to the developer community in the form of a first public beta. Video.Show is an end-to-end solution that provides a reference-quality sample for user-generated video content sites. Taking advantage of all of our latest technologies: .NET Framework 3.5 , ASP.NET AJAX , LINQ , Silverlight , Expression Encoder and Silverlight Streaming , Video.Show provides support for uploading, encoding, tagging, viewing and commenting on videos. Since not many people are building video sites like YouTube that have millions of videos, we've optimized the experience for sites with tens to thousands of videos. The version published today is Read More... Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 8:41 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: tools, Expression, Sample, visual studio, silverlight, media, RIA, silverlight streaming, media encoder, orcas

• Silverlight 1.0 RC1 is Here!

  As indicated in a previous post , we're homing in on the launch of Silverlight 1.0, and today marks another milestone with the launch of the first release candidate. Since the beta we released at MIX, we've fixed approximately 2000 bugs and work items and we're now feature complete with the final JavaScript-based API. This version of the runtime is vastly more stable than the beta release: our stress test runs show improvements of two or three orders of magnitude in many cases, and the product demonstrates the polish one might expect from a near-final release. Along with the 1.0 RC1 release, we've also refreshed the 1.1 bits. We've not exposed any significant changes in the .NET extensions, but the 1.1 "alpha refresh" includes the same core runtime as 1.0 RC1. A note on installation: if you have the beta release on your machine, there's no need to uninstall - simply run the RC1 installer and it will overwrite the existing binaries on your machine. Here's the runtime itself: Silverlight Read More... Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 3:00 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: Expression, visual studio, silverlight, media encoder, blend

• Demo: The Power of Silverlight Video

  As we were pretty explicit in declaring at the MIX conference last month, one of the key scenarios for Silverlight 1.0 is delivering rich video experiences. But since the word "rich" is something of a cliché in the web world, I wanted to give a small example of what this means in reality. To include a video file in your Silverlight application, you simply add a line like the following within the XAML content: < MediaElement x:Name = " Video " Width = " 320 " Height = " 180 " Source = " sample.wmv " /> This creates a pretty raw player, but you can then add a custom skin for the player, along with event handlers to add playback control, handle download or buffering, adjust volume or balance, retrieve metadata, or trigger an action on a timeline marker being reached. If you happen to use Expression Media Encoder (currently a free beta) to re-encode your video file, you can have it automatically generate a skin based on a variety of templates - and indeed you can then use Expression Blend Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:27 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: Sample, silverlight, media, silverlight streaming, media encoder, blend

• Silverlight Streaming is Now Live

  Head over to silverlight.live.com to create yourself a Silverlight Streaming account key and begin uploading your Silverlight applications and media. Silverlight Streaming allows you to upload up to 4GB of media content, with videos of up to ten minutes in length. The storage is "in the cloud" and files are globally cached. Here's a rough and raw walkthrough of how you can use it: Grab yourself the trial edition of Expression Media Encoder ; Take a video and encode it - make sure you go to the Output tab and choose a player template; At the end of the encode process, you should have a directory that contains the media file, some XAML and JavaScript files and any thumbnails that you've specified through the Markers tool-window. You'll need to remove any .html, .aspx, .media, .csproj or .config files from the output directory. You won't need these for the Silverlight Streaming service. Then you'll want to add a manifest that describes the Silverlight application; for a default player from Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 2:08 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: silverlight, mix07, silverlight streaming, Windows Live, media encoder

• Expression Media Encoder

  Download a free trial version here ... Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 1:49 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: Expression, silverlight, mix07, media encoder