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Expression Encoder 4 SP2 released!

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A new service pack is now available for Expression Encoder 4, which includes over 300 bug fixes as well as these new features:

General Encoding

Support for Intel QSV GPU encoding (Pro only) – GPU-accelerated encoding has added support for the Intel HD Graphics GPU included in Sandy Bridge processors, in addition to the improved Nvidia CUDA support. You can use both of these devices when encoding for increased speed and performance. More information available here. QSV and Cuda performance reports are also available.

Support for 1 and 2-pass VBR for offline H.264 encodes (Pro only) – You can now select 1-pass VBR for MP4 encodes as well as both 1-pass and 2-pass VBR for H.264-based Smooth Streaming encodes.

Support for more AAC audio options (Pro only) – You can now choose multiple-channel audio along with more bitrate and sample rate options when you use the AAC codec.

Support for SRS audio encoding – You can now choose to enable SRS to convert an audio stream from multiple audio channels to two SRS 5.1 surround sound channels.

Live

Manage publishing points from within Expression Encoder (Pro only) – In a Live Broadcasting Project, you can now create, restart or update publishing points on an IIS Smooth Streaming server. You can also choose to automatically update a broadcast’s EventID.

Live crop – You can now crop your live or file sources in a Live Broadcasting project.

Support for Windows Media Streaming MBR in a Live broadcast – You can now add multiple bitrate streams to your WM Streaming broadcast in a Live Broadcasting Project.

Support for Live H.264 VBR 1-pass (Pro only) – You can now select 1-pass VBR encoding for H.264-based Live Smooth Streaming encodes.

Other

No Screen Capture limit – The 10-minute Screen Capture limit has been removed from Expression Encoder.

Follow mouse cursor – You can now enable the screen capture area to follow your mouse cursor in Screen Capture.

Template improvements – Offline playback of DRM content, SRS playback support, improved TTML support, audio volume on startup, auto-repeat, etc.

New SDK samples – Following your requests and suggestions, we added 5 C# and 6 VB.NET samples, including a thumbnail generator, a performance tool and a Live console application.

 

Let us know what you think! Thanks.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2011
    good news for wm customer.

  • Anonymous
    November 04, 2011
    Nice work guys!

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2011
    Fantastic update. I still have a suggestion though -- Expression Encoder Pro's handling when bandwidth gets constrained (even temporarily) is to just give up, hang for awhile then error out. It'd be nice if it could adapt somehow, rather than killing the stream entirely.

  • Anonymous
    November 06, 2011
    I am still getting the "a network error has occurred cause the encode to stop" all the time! I am trying to run the h.264 baseline, 2 bitrates (596, 400 kbps). I'm on cable and my CPU is not on 100%. I have activaed GPU encoding under options. I have a Nvidia Quadro card. I know this is a very common issue and I would have hoped it to be resolved in this service pack.

  • Anonymous
    November 10, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2011
    are there any new system or hardware upgrades needed for SMF playback of smooth streams encoded w/ h.264 2-pass VBR?

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2011
    I am getting an "Unspecified Error" with SP2 when doing live encoding. SP1 works fine and nothing has changed server wise

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2011
    Hi Miccrosoft, Could you please provide answers to our questions? If this isn't the right forum for this then please let us know. Thanks! Regards, Anne

  • Anonymous
    January 05, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2012
    Why there is no sample codes for VC++

  • Anonymous
    April 11, 2012
    New version Encoder screen capture won't even start on my machine.

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2012
    I guarantee you, Jude, there are thousands of people who got it to work with very few problems.  You not knowing how to get it to work, or the basic troubleshooting methods required by ALL software, is testament to your own ignorance.

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2012
    Shush Jude, the grown-ups are talking

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2013
    Does the "Expression Encoder" too set have to be installed on a target machine before deploying an application the uses the Expression Encoder SDK?

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2014
    How about a download link?

  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2014
    Here's a link. Hopefully this works. www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx Dean.

  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2014
    Am I allows to monetize videos and streams created by the free version of Microsoft expression encoder? Is there any Link to the license agreement that allows me to do so?