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STREAMING MEDIA EAST 2010 :: CONFERENCE POST WRAP UP :: HERDS & HERDS OF GEEKS & NERDS
May 13th
Welcomed by Kevin Shively, TVWorldwide
Streaming Media East 2010 – the day after report: What is it about technology conferences that makes them so exhausting?
The exhibit floor this year was smaller then last years and I heard from the exhibitors that real “customer” presence was light, but of course for my purposes… that doesn’t really matter.
Selfishly I have to say, I am only interested in technology innovations that are easy to integrate or deploy, that are affordable and of course, that actually work. There was a lot of discussion around scalable technology, SD to HD workflow transitions, adaptive (bit rate) streaming… and of course, highest on the list is the promise of “unified systems” (as it is referred to in the Enterprise) or single [video] signal transmission to multiple devices, something along the lines of TVEverywhere type availability of broadcast content, but specifically one feed that can play back on any device (i.e. Mobile, Desktop, Set top box, etc.).
That’s a lot to think about, but I was able to pin-point my priorities and focus on putting together a package that would work for me and my budget… and here is that journey. More >
FCC FREE WORKSHOP TODAY :: Technology/Applications and Devices
Aug 27th
You can sign up for FREE to view the Webex session hosted on the FCC website: More info here
Date and time: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:30 pm
Date: 8/27/09
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: Room TW-C305 (Commission Meeting Room)
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554
Directions
Coordinator: James Miller
Phone: (202) 418-7351
Eastern Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Change time zone
Program: Broadband
Duration: 2 hours
Description: Topics (Preliminary)
The following are some of the preliminary topics that will be covered at this workshop. If you would like to discuss any other topics, please send us your suggestions.
1) Trends
What are innovative ways consumers are using broadband today?
How are the ways consumers use broadband changing?
How are evolutions in devices facilitating what consumers can do with broadband?
How will applications evolve in the next 5, 10, and 15 years?
2) Needs
What advancements in broadband infrastructure could make possible applications currently limited by the available pipe?
What are the challenges to developing broadband applications for fixed and mobile broadband?
What changes in broadband devices and development platforms could realize new growth in applications?
How may changes in applications drive changes to networks?
What regulatory or legal barriers constrain the growth of broadband applications and devices?
In what ways do applications and devices leverage legal, social, and technical features of cybersecurity?
Agenda
| 1:30 pm | Panel Session 1: CURRENT EXPERIENCES AND TRENDS IN APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES (90 minutes: 5 minutes from each panelist followed by questions from the FCC moderating panel and audience) Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President for Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Tim Napoleon, Chief Strategist, Digital Media, Akamai Technologies Robb Topolski, Chief Technologist, Open Technology Initiative, New America Foundation, Public Knowledge, Free Press Evan Young, Senior Director, Product Marketing, TiVo Inc. Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:10 pm |
Panel Session 2: EMERGING APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THEM Sunil Daluvoy, Senior Manager, New Business Development, Google |
| 4:40 pm | Closing Statements/Adjournment
|
let me know what you thought of this session if you attended – I will be monitoring and recording in its entirety!
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WINDOWS SERVER 2008 :: IIS 7.0 Live Smooth Streaming Walk-Through :: MICROSOFT
Mar 23rd
IIS Live Smooth Streaming
David Nelson takes us on a walk through of IIS Live Smooth Streaming now in Beta. IIS Live Smooth Streaming enables adaptive streaming of live events to Microsoft Silverlight clients and is an extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 – it delivers compelling, uninterrupted live video streams that allegedly instantly adjust quality (bit rate) to match changing network and CPU conditions at the client.
I am very curious to see how this is going to work when Enterprise end users hit on an IIS 7 video that is Smooth streaming – fat live video pumping over HTTP into a locked down network, sounds like the kind of bandwidth consumption that could bring systems down… especially when systems are cloaked, how is the intelligence of the smooth streaming going to work for video coming in to the Enterprise from the outside?
The following prerequisites must be fulfilled to install IIS Live Smooth Streaming – Beta:
- You must use IIS 7.0 running on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista® with Service Pack 1 (SP1).
- To manage IIS Live Smooth Streaming using the IIS Manager user interface, the IIS Management Console for IIS must be installed. You can install the IIS Management Console role service for Web Server (IIS) in Server Manager.
The following options are available for installing IIS Live Smooth Streaming - Beta:
- Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta
- Web Platform Installer 1.0
- Windows Installer files (for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1 operating systems)
The “Installation Notes” section of the IIS Live Smooth Streaming – Beta Readme contains detailed instructions for each of these installation options.
Read the entire post
Here is an interesting thread from the WMTALK LIST:
For Live Smooth Streaming today, you've got just three products announced.
Inlet Spinnaker (with a forthcoming update) ENCODES
Windows Server 2008 (with Live Smooth Streaming module for IIS7) HOSTS
Silverlight 2+ CONSUMES
A live encoder basically pushes the same chunks the server would deliver to the
client to the server, with some extra metadata and stuff. So the file format is
still Fragmented MPEG-4. Supported codecs are:
VC-1 and WMA 10 Pro for Silverlight 2+
H.264 and AAC-LC for Silverlight 3+
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft Corporation
Compression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: tinyurl.com/benwaggclasses
-----Original Message-----
From: WMTalk [mailto:WMTalk@DISCUSSMS.HOSTING.LSOFT.COM] On Behalf Of Harry
Emerson
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:32 AM
To: WMTalk@DISCUSSMS.HOSTING.LSOFT.COM
Subject: Live Smooth Streaming: Goesinto & Goesoutta
Hi All,
I've read a bunch now about Live Smooth Streaming, and there's chatter about
mpeg4, H.264, etc., but I'm still confused about who does what to whom. If
anyone can help put the pieces together, that would be nice. What I'd like
to understand better right now is the goesinta and goesoutta formats for
each piece
WME9
EE2 SP1
IIS7
WMS/2008
Silverlight Player
WMP (v11?)
Starting points:
EE2 SP1: what input formats does it accept? What will it output to IIS7
(e.g., native mpeg4, a proprietary format, etc.)? What will it output to
WMS/2008? Will it output directly to a Silverlight player (and if so, in
what formats)? Will it output directly to a WMP?
WME9: we're probably familiar enough with input formats, and we know it will
output to WMS/2008 and to WMP 11 in a proprietary ASF format. Will it output
to an IIS7 publishing point? Will it output directly to a Silverlight
player?
IIS7: for a Live publishing point: what input formats will it accept (e.g.,
only a proprietary format from EE2?)? What are the output formats (e.g.,
only the .ismv chunked up smooth streaming file format?)?
WMS/2008: I'm guessing there's not much change. I assume it will accept
input from EE2, but not EE2 smooth streaming? I also assume the output is
the same (wma/wmv in an asf wrapper that can be digested by Silverlight or
WMP?)?
Silverlight: I think I understand that it can receive a million little
chunks of a video as miniscule progressive downloads from IIS7 Live Smooth
Streaming. Can it also receive that from WMS/2008? Will it accept other
input formats like mp3, mpeg4, etc. (I mean, in native mode, not in
programmer-hell mode -- meaning, can I just point an mp3 stream at it?)?
Maybe some of these answers should be obvious to me.... I'm also hoping to
learn of interplay between these systems and the broader ecosystem out
there. In particular streaming live and on-demand audio and video to the
wealth of smart phones that don't support Windows Media, the iPhone in
particular. For me, reaching that market is mandatory.
Thanks,
Harry
Harry Emerson
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