Do you have media like *.mov files which Silverlight doesn't speak?
Do you really really want that media in Silverlight?
Do you have an abundance of bandwidth to push un-encoded files up to the cloud?
Sick of melting your CPU to encode media? we can do it in the cloud.
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If you answered Yes I have some news for you.
In the new Beta of Silverlight Streaming we implemented transcode in the Cloud functionality as part of our overall Video Management capability.
Via the Web UX (no API... yet) you upload a video and we transcode it in our server farm and then wrap this in a default player (NOTE: This isn't a replacement for Expression Encoder - this is different!).
Watch my screencast below of how to use it.
CLICK THE IMAGE TO PLAY
SYNDICATE THIS VIDEO (drop this in your blog)
<iframe style="width: 500px; height: 400px" src="http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/6579/SLSTranscodeAMOVFile/iframe.html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
Awesome Angus!
Good work, I'm sure to use this and tell others.
John.
Yay! Upload video - think this is a really useful feature.
Bronwen
We've just shipped a complimentary service that offers additional media management for Silverlight Streaming, including support for administration, moderation, flagging, thumbnailing, user association, tags, ratings, comments, etc. We also enable site owners to offload the traffic for media upload and provide both SOAP and JSON APIs to remove almost all the load from 3rd party sites. If anyone is interested, please check out http://www.boostonlinemedia.com.
"complimentary" should have been "complementary", but you get our compliments as well :-)
A video I am attempting to process is erroring out. It is a 30MB .wmv, anything I should try? TIA...
Peter please email me alogan atREPLACETHIS microsoft.com with your account id and the offending media name.
i'll then pass this onto the team.
Will this functionality be available through the API in the future?
Customers are willing to pay to upload files larger than 105MB, when might we be able to do this?
Thx,
Jonathan