Silverlight Articles

YuMe Steps Into Silverlight Video Ad Delivery

YuMe announced they have now got a first Silverlight-friendly video ad network. That means users can implement the new ACE technology in Silverlight players and generate revenue on the content finally.

Silverlight Makes Gains, Shines On Kaltura and Ooyala

Apparently, and I find this rather shocking, Silverlight is installed on 60% of connected devices. SIXTY percent. I am guessing that is mostly because it is now coming pre-installed on Windows machines and smartphones? As a result both Kaltura and Ooyala have begun to support ...

Streaming Production and Flash Delivery Workshop - March 23rd

Are you producing streaming video and wondering if your procedures and work flow maximize quality and efficiency? Perhaps you're on the distribution side and need to learn how to produce a Flash Player, or install or manage the Flash Media Server? If any of these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Bing Video Search - A Quick Overview

Microsoft has launched their new Google competitor, bing, complete with video search and everything. The thing is, I don't know what all the hype is about. People are talking about it like it's going to be some actual competition to Google and from what I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.