Windows Media Articles

Windows Media is a multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. It consists of a software development kit (SDK) with several application programming interfaces (API) and a number of prebuilt technologies, and is the replacement of NetShow technologies.
The Windows Media SDK is being replaced by Media Foundation.

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List of Cloud-Based Video Encoding Tools and Services

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With the rise of software-as-a-service (SAAS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) I thought it was about time we started compiling a list of web-based video encoding options. This is not a list of online video platforms but rather a set of places that you can upload a ...

Boxee Totally Removes PC Software From Site, Here Are Some Alternatives

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Boxee had already announced that they were going to to stop supporting the computer application, available for PC, Mac and Linux, they had made. But they never mentioned they were going to completely remove it from their site, yet, that is exactly what they've now ...

My Video Lifestyle - No Cord Cutting But Wireless, 3D, HD, Fast, Flexible & Complex

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I've recently received a bunch of really cool gear here at the home office and need to talk about it. But first I had to assemble it all into a usable and versatile system that then allowed me to watch video from just about any ...

Ways to Stream Your Home Video Content to your iOS Devices

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JetStreamHD believe that they have the solution to you watching all that content you have amassed on your PC and want on your iPad2 via their new product, creatively named, JetStreamHD. It's really just a media server but they claim it to be "the world's ...

Microsoft Drops 3,000 Word Reason for Supporting H.264, Fails to Mention Stake in MPEGLA

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Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch, has lobbed a 3,000 word grenade at Google. The grenade is a lengthy description of why Microsoft will now support H.264 for web video in their Internet Explorer web browser and allow users to load a third-party codec for WebM. The one ...

Finding Your Audience with Heat-Seeking Online Video Marketing Missiles

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Audiences are becoming increasingly fragmented in the ways they find and experience entertainment content and related marketing messages, which can be frustrating for the brands, businesses marketers and advertisers that are trying to reach them. There is indecision and hesitancy about where to best spend ...

Microsoft To Launch Internet-Ready Set Top Box, Windows TV, At CES?

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There's a joke I have heard several variations of over the last several years.  Question: How do you know when a new tech idea has fully taken hold?  Answer: When Microsoft puts out a competing product.  I couldn't help but think about that zinger as ...

Silverlight Gets Streaming Surround Sound With SRS 5.1 Support and Toolkit

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SRS Labs, Inc. has teamed up with Microsoft to offer full SRS 5.1 Surround Sound via a new toolkit for the platform. That means Silverlight will soon feature encoding and decoding of surround sound for streaming content.

Get Rolling With WebM Video - VP8 Encoding Tools for WebM

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So Google wrapped up Vorbis and VP8 into WebM and is offering it as open source to help drive a fully open standard for media online including video. Nearly everyone and their brother have jumped on board (except Intel, who said they will consider it ...

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.

The Basics of Web Video File Formats and Video Containers

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Does all the technical jargon about digital video file formats drive you bonkers? Join the club! Confusion over video file formats is probably the single biggest hang-up for people wanting to upload video to the web. The good news is that with just a little ...

Vzaar - Making Commercial Web Video Hosting Simple

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Vzaar.com is a lot of things. First off, they're a sponsor here at ReelSEO. That  affects me not since I'm just a freelance contributor but because Mark wanted to make sure it was mentioned. Second, probably first to them, it's an online service that lets ...

End Your Video Encoding Blues With Encoding.com

Encoding.com offers, get this, web-based, on-demand, video encoding. Nope, no joke. They will grab your video encode it and then send it back to you. Sign up is free and you can even do a test run but after that, you'll have to pay

HD Online - Watch Upload and Share High-Definition Videos

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With the ever expanding acceptance of high definition video it's no wonder that making a list of sites that support it is an ongoing task. So this time around it's my turn to update you on all the latest and greatest places where you can ...

How Websites Around The Globe Leverage Online Video

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Back in March, we published some research which we believe helps to provide some unique insight into how various companies and vertical markets leverage website video content. Today, we offer up the following research, which takes a look at website video usage for the top ...

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