Topic - Online Video & Silverlight
Microsoft wants You to use Their Stuff to Stream HD
We all know that Flash rules the roost when it comes to online video. We also know that HTML 5 could put a serious dent in that dominance. Now Microsoft is trying to do the same but in the HD streaming category with their upcoming IIS and Silverlight.
Simultaneous iPhone, Web and TV Live Video? Wowza!
Telestream and Wowza have shined light on a deal between them that will offer live video production and universal streaming to the iPhone, Web and TV. That is something to say Wowza! about!
Microsoft Silverlight 3 offers H.264, full HD, Dev Tools
Version 3 of Microsoft’s video player is out and included a host of new functionality including H.264 and High-Definition video. The multimedia software is available for Mac OS X (Intel-based Macs), Linux and of course, Windows.
IE8 to implement Some HTML 5 Features
HTML 5 just gained another ally in its adoption…Microsoft. Sure it might still be some time before HTML 5 is totally ready for the masses but with such early adopters like IE, Firefox and Safari now, it should start getting a heavy push to become solid.
Email Video Marketing, What’s Old is New Again?
Want to get your video out to the masses? Why not try email? Sure you can’t actually embed videos in email via Javascript (usually) but you can work some other miracles and get them in front of eyeballs thanks to new products popping up for email marketing.
With billions of videos being watched online monthly and almost everyone having some sort of email account, it seems only right that the two be once again reunited into a mass marketing tool. So much so that multiple services are now offering up new ways to do just that.
Microsoft Bing Video Search – A Quick Overview
Microsoft has launched their new Google competitor, bing, complete with video search and everything.
Quicktime to have Built in YouTube Support
If you’re an iPhone user you already know you can watch your favorite YouTube videos on it via the app. However, if you’re a Quicktime user you’ve always had to do your encoding and video editing and then go either to YouTube’s page or use another application to upload your videos.
Watch Netflix Streaming Movies on a Mac with New Netflix Beta Silverlight Player
Via DownloadSquad, Netflix is beta-testing a new online streaming video player based on Microsoft Silverlight that now allows Mac users to instantly watch Netflix movies on a Mac once silverlight is installed. PC users have enjoyed this ability for sometime and the new player is merely an update. Because this is a beta test, you have to opt in if you want to use the new services.
Silverlight Announces H.264 Support for Online HD Video
Microsoft Silverlight has recently played a major role helping to shape some of the world’s biggest events in recent months. Silverlight – Microsoft’s cross-browser, cross-platform solution for delivering rich interactive applications and content experiences on the Web – helped viewers experience both the Olympic Games and the U.S. Democratic National Convention on the Web, providing an interactive, high-quality way for people to view both events.
Later this week, at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) 2008 in Amsterdam, Microsoft Corp. will demonstrate an important new capability for Silverlight – playback of H.264-based video. H264 is a standard video specification that delivers high-definition video over a variety of delivery channels. During the event, Microsoft will also highlight how customers in Europe are reaping the benefits of adopting Silverlight.
Adobe Flash Player 10 – Adobe Launches Flash Player 10 Beta
Adobe has released today the newest version of its popular Flash Player, Flash 10 (Code named project “Astro”) in beta testing mode. The upgrade is one of the most visually advanced and is the first version of Flash to support hardware acceleration from graphics chipsets.
Video – Silverlight Will Bring Interactivity to Web Video
Microsoft veteran programmer Charles Finkelstein, who has lead the development of a number of products including the video editing program Movie Maker, which is installed virtually every Windows PC, is excited about the prospects of a greater interactivity.
