Silverlight supports Windows Media Audio and Video (WMA, VC-1/WMV7-9) and MP3 formats. If you have existing media assets in other formats, you can convert them into a format Silverlight can understand. There are a couple ways to do this. On your desktop using Expression Encoder Use the user interface for granular control over the entire user experience on your media files with support for encoding, enhancement and publishing for Silverlight Or use the command line interface for batch processing Choose this when you do not have abundant bandwidth to upload media assets to Silverlight Streaming for encoding or transcoding Choose this if you have adequate CPU power on your desktop to transcode your assets Expression Encoder can upload your media files to the Silverlight Streaming service using this plug-in In the cloud using Silverlight Streaming The companion service to Silverlight on the cloud at http://silverlight.live.com/ provides transcoding support in the Video Management area Choose
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