Published by Ezequiel Jadib on April 12th, 2012 2:20 pm under Adaptive Streaming, CSM, Composite Stream Manifest, Live Smooth Streaming, MMP Video Editor, Media, Microsoft Media Platform, RCE, Rough Cut Editing, SSME, Silverlight, Silverlight 5, Smooth Streaming, Smooth Streaming Media Element
Heads up! A refresh of the MMP Video Editor 2.0 was released today. This release doesn’t contain any new feature and is just a refresh to use the latest Silverlight 5. The 2.0 release was built using the Silverlight 5 Beta bits, which already expired so some users were getting the message “This application was... 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
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
Published by Ezequiel Jadib on January 14th, 2011 4:15 pm under Adaptive Streaming, CSM, Composite Stream Manifest, Live Smooth Streaming, Media, Prism, RCE, Rough Cut Editing, SSME, Silverlight, Silverlight 4, Smooth Streaming, Smooth Streaming Media Element
Microsoft just released the SP1 version of the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor. This service pack addresses some of the most requested requirements by the community. In this post you will find detailed information about what this release contains. Service Pack Content In this service pack you will find: The RCE migrated to Visual Studio... read more
A month ago, Microsoft published the alpha version of the IIS Transform Manager. The Transform Manager provides simple integrated video encoding and batch conversion of video files to the IIS Smooth Streaming format. It does this quite nicely, as it provides an extensible platform for scheduling and running multiple tasks in sequence on an IIS... read more
Yesterday, I exchanged some emails with my friend Chandler from iStreamPlanet. He was having some trouble with the Smooth Streaming Media Element (SSME). He described the issue as: When I set the position on the Smooth Streaming Media Element, the displayed frame is not updated. I can only get the frame displayed to update when... read more
Published by Ezequiel Jadib on May 27th, 2010 12:01 pm under Adaptive Streaming, CSM, Composite Stream Manifest, Emerging Technology, IIS7, Live Smooth Streaming, Media, RCE, Rough Cut Editing, SSME, Silverlight, Silverlight 3, Smooth Streaming
Weeks ago Microsoft published the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor (RCE), an application we created with Microsoft and that was used for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. One of the main features used during the Olympics was the ability to generate Composite Stream Manifests (CSM) based on projects the editors created using the Rough Cut Editor.... read more
On April 21th, Microsoft LATAM hosted a virtual event with 60 technical sessions about products, technologies and services being launched. Julian and I had the opportunity of being speakers at the event, where we talked about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and we explored the capabilities of this framework. We went through the basic principles... read more
Published by Ezequiel Jadib on February 5th, 2010 6:39 pm under Adaptive Streaming, CSM, Composite Stream Manifest, Emerging Technology, IIS7, Live Smooth Streaming, Media, RCE, Rough Cut Editing, SSME, Smooth Streaming, Smooth Streaming Media Element, Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit
One of the greatest features added on the Beta 2 version of the IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit (SSPDK) is the support for Composite Stream Manifests for Rough Cut Editing. This a powerful feature which I really recommend looking at, and if you want to learn the basics of the CSMs you must take... read more
Many people have been asking me how to manage publishing point programmatically on IIS Media Services 3.0 (instead of the 2.0 bits, as I explained in this post) So, I started to dig and I came up with the following code: // Live Streaming Section Path const string LiveStreamingSectionPath = "system.webServer/media/liveStreaming"; // Change this settings... read more
