After my previous post about Smooth Streaming on Windows Phone 7 I received questions about Live Audio Streaming on Windows Phone 7. In particular the most recurrent questions are: - Is it possible to create a global audio player that works in every page of my application? - Is it possible use...

IIS Transform Manager 1.0 – Beta refresh is available for download . IIS Transform Manager (IIS TM) is a new component of the next version of the IIS Media Services platform and provides a simple integrated video encoding/encrypting and batch conversion and transformation of video files. IIS Transform...

One of the missions of IIS Media Services 4.0 (IIS MS) is to offer an Integrated Media Platform that allows users to use a single encoder and a single backend to serve video content live and on-demand to a large numbers of client devices spanning from PC , MAC, Windows Phone 7 and iPhone TM \iPad TM...

One of many useful features that comes with IIS Media Services 4.0 and Smooth Streaming is the ability to stream live and on-demand content with multiple language audio tracks that are selectable by the viewer. An example of this capability is the recent schedule of events that Vatican Radio ( http:...

In my previous post I introduced some new features added to IIS Media Services (IIS MS) 4.0 and in particular the new manifest compression used for Live Streaming. In this post I discuss about the new publishing point runtime status avaliable with IIS MS 4.0. This new feature can permit to you during...

IIS Media Service 4.0 was released and now you can use it as an integrated media platform . As you can read in Chris Knowlton blog post there are a lot of new features in IIS Media Services 4.0 not only connected to the integrated media platform that I described in my previous post on this . We have...

In my previous post I described the avaliability of Smooth Streaming Media Element (SSME) for Windows Phone (WP) as a part of the Integrated Media Platform vision for IIS Media Services . In this post I would show you how you can use SSME for WP7 in order to reproduce Smooth Streaming (SS) content live...

A frequent question that I received is about suggested architecture for live Smooth Streaming and fault tolerance during a live streaming. With this post I would try to explain in a simple way some details about Live Smooth Streaming and summarize architecture and suggestions for deliver robust Live...

In my previous post I introduced vision of integrated Media Platform coming with IIS Media Services 4.0 (IIS MS 4.0) and IIS Transform Manager (IIS TM) that could permit to have a single infrastructure, able to deliver content to PC, MAC, Windows Phone 7, Apple devices (iPhone ad iPad) , STB, conntected...

After my post Rainet and FIFA World Cup I received questions about support in IISMS4 (IIS Media Services 4) for iPhone™\iPad™. One of the mission of IISMS is offering an Integrated Media Platform that give to users possibility to use a single encoder and a single backend that could permit...

Another important service was recently released from Rainet: Replay TV service. Replay TV on the Rai TV website repurposes the last 7 days of the three main Rai channels as VOD content delivered with Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming. In addition, 24/7 live streaming are simulcast from the same three...

During the last FIFA World Cup 2010 Rainet, the internet company of RAI, the Italian public broadcaster, leveraged Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming to delivering live and on-demand HD streaming from this event on their Rai Sport and Rai.tv portals. Below are some pictures from the Rai Sport website...

How I introduced in my previous post , Rai Net the internet company of RAI, the Italian public broadcaster, during the last FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009 delivered free, live Web broadcasting in high definition television quality (720p) of the Italian soccer team matches during the tournament...

How I have introduced in my previous post , Smooth Streaming is an innovative technology based on IIS Media Services and Silverlight, which the scope to simplify and make a reality delivering video content at high quality level through Internet up to true HD for Live and VOD. Using this technology RAI...

Delivering video content through Internet is one of the hottest technical topics. The increase of bandwidth and connectivity in combination with the numbers from the last big video event delivered like Olympics, demonstrate the potential of Internet channel for this type of content. In the 2008 Summer...

Una delle tendenze più rilevanti nell'evoluzione dei contenuti nel mondo del Web è sicuramente rappresentata dall'enorme crescita dei contenuti video che oramai sta investendo siti di ogni dimensione. Si va dalla possibilità di ospitare materiale video generato dagli utenti, news...