Published by Damian Schenkelman on October 3rd, 2011 1:40 pm under Adaptive Streaming, CSM, Composite Application Guidance for WPF & SL, Composite Stream Manifest, Emerging Technology, Live Smooth Streaming, Media, Microsoft Media Platform, Prism, Prism-v2.2, RCE, Rough Cut Editing, Silverlight, Silverlight 5, Smooth Streaming
Today, the new version of the Microsoft Media Platform (MMP) Video Editor was released to the public. The new release is based on Silverlight 5, and has a lot (really a lot!) of new features (fully listed below), such as a UI based on floating windows, and a new Sub-Clip tool which gives editors more... read more
Late October 2010, Tim, Geoff and I went to meet Sam (SR DEV LED from Windows Manageability) to talk about a potential engagement on a Web UI Project for Windows Powershell 3.0. We got really excited about the opportunity and after eleven (11) weeks of hard work, we helped Windows Manageability to deliver the first... read more
A few days ago I noticed that smooth streaming had stopped working in my development machine. Every time I tried to GET a manifest, I received the infamous HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error screen. My first try to fix this was, obviously, reinstalling the IIS Media Services package. Sadly, that didn’t help. After... read more
During the last couple of years I worked quite a lot with Windows Azure. There is no other choice if you work with the Microsoft DPE team, like we do at Southworks The thing is that we usually have to deal with last minute deployments to Azure that can take more than a minute <grin>.... read more
Yesterday Nathan announced the release of the Windows Azure Accelerators for Web Roles. If you are using Windows Azure today, this can be a pain relief if you’ve got used to wait 15 minutes (or more) every time you deploy to Windows Azure (and hope nothing was wrong in the package to realize after then... read more
Published by Ezequiel Jadib on June 29th, 2011 10:33 am under Adaptive Streaming, Emerging Technology, IIS Transform Manager, IIS7, MMP Video Editor, Media, Microsoft Media Platform, RCE, Rough Cut Editing, Smooth Streaming
A few months ago, Microsoft published the Beta version of the IIS Transform Manager. This new release contains an incredible set of new features, explained here by Chris Knowlton. Back in the Alpha days, I wrote an IIS Transform Manager Task that takes an Microsoft Media Platform Video Editor (formerly Rough Cut Editor) Project XML... read more
If you work with Silverlight and MVVM, you must have probably been forced to do some weird thing to bind to a property in your view model (say a Command) from a DataTemplate. Some of the common approaches I have seen and used myself are: Using some kind of binding helper as a View’s resource.... read more
Last week a group of Southies converged in Las Vegas to support several deliverables for both MIX 11 and NAB. Held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, NAB draws more than 90,000+ media and entertainment professionals from over 150 countries. The Microsoft NAB booth was impressive as always, and as an IIS Media Services Partner,... read more
On Thursday (March 31th) I participated in the Windows Azure Bootcamp hosted by Microsoft Argentina. I shared the stage with my colleague Martin Salias, talking about Azure Diagnostics and Administration. Here you can find a brief summary of the content: Azure Diagnostics & Logging Management API Service Deployment Fault & Upgrade Domains You can download... read more
You’re pretty confident about your web development abilities and feel you can tackle any web related challenge that comes along. But maybe you’ve been spending too much time on the server side. What’s your knowledge of jQuery? Not really strong on that one. OData? What’s that O for? DotNetNuke? Never heard of it. Uh oh…... read more
