Long name good times.
Topics:
- Delivery mechanisms
- Hands on encoding
- Best practices
Goals:
- Deliver content(compelling)
- Maximize ROI for encoding.
Two most common audio/video delivery
- Progressive download
- Streaming real time without caching
Progessive download:
Pros:
Easy management and config
Lower server resource usage
Supports Secure sockets Layer(SSL)
Firewalls
Cons:
No Live
No advanced
No buffer
Streaming Download:
Pros:
Basic and advanced media features
Bandwidth optimization
Enables Live broadcasting
Cons:
Requres management infrastructure
Cant deliver content encoded at a higher bitrate than connection speed.
IIS7 Media Pack
- Media delivery on top of IIS7
- Bit rate throttling
- web server playlist
- adds basic streaming
- Free www.iis.net
Distribution services
Outsource
- Silverlight.live.com
- Content Delivery Networks
- For Public consumption
- Do it yourself server 2008
Using IIS7
- Using Windows Media Services 2008
- Very popular on internal networks
- Push internally to CDN(outside/inside)
"Silverlight is the future of streaming on the web"
WMV ecosystem:
- Mature live streaming
- Big Ecosystem
- intergration into major editing platforms
Why WMV and VC-1?
- Greater quality
- Better decode performance
- up to 2x pixels/second of H.264
- Large existing libraries of content
It is just windows media
- Most existing files urls work
- Media features baked into runtime
- no OS codecs
- Video codecs
- wmv7/8/9 9advanced profile
- Audio codecs
- windows media audio in silverlight1.0
- windows media audio pro new in silverlight 2
- MP3 files also supported
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Selling points:
designers - deliver vision quickly
developers-Programmable object model
business-Faster encoding and lower bandwidth cost.
When encoding video in Microsoft Media Encoder: Turn off Clear type to make video smoother.
Best practices include:
- Keeping bandwidth usage down
- Clean video(no jumping or artifacts)
- Clean Audio(no jumping or skipping)
- Avoid analog to DV bridges
I encoded this during this session. =)