David Sayed's Microsoft Blog
Mostly about Microsoft media technologies.
This article is now of historical interest only since the SLS service is no longer available. In...
Date: 01/08/2010
Thanks go to Tim Heuer for pointing this out (and providing this workaround). In the posts on...
Date: 01/08/2010
In this post, I will describe how to use Windows Live Writer to embed a Silverlight video into a...
Date: 01/07/2010
In this post, I will describe how to use Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 to encode and publish a...
Date: 01/07/2010
In this post, I assume that you have already provisioned a Windows Azure account and have an active...
Date: 01/07/2010
This is going to be a series of long posts. With Silverlight Streaming (silverlight.live.com) being...
Date: 01/07/2010
After a short break, I’m pleased to offer up the latest Silverlight podcast. This time, the topic is...
Date: 01/06/2010
Alicia Keys Live from the Apollo this Thursday at 6pm PST – Powered by Microsoft Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming
On Thursday at 6pm Pacific Time, you’re invited to see Alicia Keys perform live! Watch the exclusive...
Date: 01/06/2010
I recently started to play with JSON. One of the immediate issues I found was reading the results...
Date: 12/02/2009
This week, I'm at Streaming Media West in San Jose, California. Seeing the sun, blue skies and...
Date: 11/16/2009
Updated 10/14/2009: Player is now live on the front page of the France 24 website. Changed the link...
Date: 10/09/2009
We’ve been nominated in three categories for the 2009 Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards. There...
Date: 10/01/2009
Want to know more about Smooth Streaming in the real world? Join us on Thursday October 15th at 11am...
Date: 10/01/2009
Groupe CANAL, the premiere pay television channel in France with 10.6 million subscribers, is...
Date: 09/30/2009
Tech-Ed Japan 2009 has embraced Smooth Streaming. You can watch the keynote (in Japanese) for a few...
Date: 08/26/2009
Uncompressed (or lightly compressed) video needs lots of disk space. More than that, if you’re...
Date: 07/22/2009
We're doing more and more video work in my team, the latest being some of the videos used for our...
Date: 07/18/2009
A nice demo of SD content using Smooth Streaming: https://www.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/hd/raitvhd.html?v=1
Date: 06/25/2009
MSN Brazil is using DeepZoomPix on their site show off pictures from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival....
Date: 05/19/2009
CDNetworks, a Korea-based CDN has introduced support for Smooth Streaming and it looks great! You...
Date: 04/28/2009
Today, we unveiled an exciting technology demo called DeepZoomPix. It enables you to experience a...
Date: 04/16/2009
CTV, Canada’s largest private broadcaster, has some great high definition content on their HD Beta...
Date: 03/19/2009
Colleagues in the field highlighted a couple of nice broadcast news sites outside the United States...
Date: 03/11/2009
Expression Encoder Express is a free version of Expression Encoder. If you have the full version and...
Date: 12/12/2008
Ever wondered how Netflix encodes their video material for their streaming service? This blog post...
Date: 11/19/2008
I love Netflix and I love their Watch Instantly feature, which enabled me to discover and catch up...
Date: 11/03/2008
Geotate is a very interesting British company who were showing their automatic geotagging technology...
Date: 10/13/2008
At Photokina, we were lucky enough to have a local Expression Media fan who spent pretty much...
Date: 10/13/2008
I spent some time with the Mac Office guys at Photokina who were showing the Special Media Edition...
Date: 10/13/2008
Expression Media 2 SP1 is now available. If you are a Windows user and have opted to receive updates...
Date: 10/06/2008
Yesterday was the first day of Photokina. I spent much of the day on the Microsoft stand talking to...
Date: 09/24/2008
This week, I'm at Photokina with a large number of Microsoft people. If you're around, come and see...
Date: 09/22/2008
Some of the Expression Media team will be in the UK the week of September 15th just before...
Date: 08/12/2008
Expression Media will be represented at Photokina in Cologne, Germany from September 23rd to 28th....
Date: 08/04/2008
Some of the Expression Media team did an impromptu lunch session at the Microsoft ProPhoto Summit...
Date: 07/11/2008
Ziv Gilat's Eye-Fi demo at the ProPhoto Summit today was awesome. For those who don't know, Eye-Fi...
Date: 07/10/2008
Here's a hot new feature that will enhance how we do cuts editing in Expression Encoder. We're...
Date: 07/09/2008
Expression Media 2 includes support for publishing your catalogs as Silverlight galleries....
Date: 07/03/2008
There have been some questions in the Expression forums about product keys and apparent confusion as...
Date: 06/24/2008
Now that Expression Encoder 2 has been released, the team is hard at work on the next version of the...
Date: 06/17/2008
Having posted a method for compressing AVCHD directly in Expression Encoder 2, I thought I would see...
Date: 06/02/2008
I've been chatting with Scott Stanfield, CEO of Vertigo about AVCHD camcorders and we discussed how...
Date: 05/30/2008
Expression Media 2 features support for creating Silverlight web galleries, which means interactive...
Date: 05/22/2008
Did you know that students can get Expression products for free? As part of Microsoft's family of...
Date: 05/12/2008
If you shoot HD video using a tape-based camera, you're probably shooting HDV....
Date: 04/30/2008