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Silverlight Streaming is Now Live

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Head over to silverlight.live.com to create yourself a Silverlight Streaming account key and begin uploading your Silverlight applications and media. Silverlight Streaming allows you to upload up to 4GB of media content, with videos of up to ten minutes in length. The storage is "in the cloud" and files are globally cached.

Here's a rough and raw walkthrough of how you can use it:

  • Grab yourself the trial edition of Expression Media Encoder;
  • Take a video and encode it - make sure you go to the Output tab and choose a player template;
  • At the end of the encode process, you should have a directory that contains the media file, some XAML and JavaScript files and any thumbnails that you've specified through the Markers tool-window.
  • You'll need to remove any .html, .aspx, .media, .csproj or .config files from the output directory. You won't need these for the Silverlight Streaming service.
  • Then you'll want to add a manifest that describes the Silverlight application; for a default player from Expression Media Encoder (I used the Glassy theme), you can use the following manifest:

<SilverlightApp>
<loadFunction>StartWithParent</loadFunction>
<jsOrder>
<js>MicrosoftAjax.js</js>
<js>PreviewMedia.js</js>
<js>EmePlayer.js</js>
<js>player.js</js>
<js>startPlayer.js</js>
</jsOrder>
</SilverlightApp>

  • Save the manifest as manifest.xml and add it to the directory.
  • Now simply zip all the files up (make sure they're in the root of the zip file).
  • From silverlight.live.com, go to the Manage Applications tab and upload the application.
  • From here, Silverlight Streaming will guide you through the remaining steps, providing you with the JavaScript and HTML code you'll need to add to your page to access the streamed content.

Check out the WPF Momentum video I posted a short while ago to see an example deployed in action.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2007
    The curtain has been raised on a whole slew of news related to Silverlight , formerly codenamed "WPF/E".

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2007
    With the first day of MIX, it seems like there's been a staggering stream of announcements (all...

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2007
    ... Vi har jo ikke en chance for at følge med! MIX07 er igang, og jeg sidder her og prøver at følge med

  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2007
    Came across Silverlight early this day, didn't know it's previously codenamed "WPF/E". Anyway it might be good to try out the 4GB video space, eh..

  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2007
    在Mix上，微软开始公布其Web战略的关键部分。微软发布了一款α版Silverlight 1.1，使开发人员能够利用包括脚本语言在内的.Net语言编写能够在IE、Firefox、 Safari上运行的应用

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2007
    LINKS: http://dev.live.com/silverlight &amp; http://silverlight.live.com/ and http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/30/silverlight-streaming-is-now-live.aspx

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2007
    Thanks Tim... toward my goal of rolling out Silverlight packages with the Expression Media Encoder, I hadn't been able to get past the local viewing of the results. With your info, I'm now at 2nd base with a viewable online page with a playing Silverlight viewer in it. My goal is to have all the parts on my own website host server, not some parts on it and others on the Microsoft Silverlight Streaming server.... but it feels much better to be on 2nd base. Your blog got me there.

  • Anonymous
    May 09, 2007
    在Mix上，微软开始公布其Web战略的关键部分。微软发布了一款α版Silverlight 1.1，使开发人员能够利用包括脚本语言在内的.Net语言编写能够在IE、Firefox、 Safari上运行的应用.基于Silverlight

  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    May 21, 2007
    Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser , cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2007
    LINKS: http://dev.live.com/silverlight &amp; http://silverlight.live.com/ and http://blogs.msdn.com/tims

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2007
    Tim Sneath hat kürzlich einen Artikel über "Video-Streaming mit Silverlight und live.com" geschrieben!

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2007
    SilverLight新版，托管代码支持，IronRuby

  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2007
    I decided to record a short video tutorial on Silverlight Streaming. The scenario is this: you have a

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2007
    Last week I posted about my interview with Angus Logan and Danny Thorpe and included the whole interview in the blog post by using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live . But just what did I need to do to get that all working? Here I will show you. Encoding

  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2007
    A ver... tenía que contar en mi blog que Titín III había ganando, a sus 38 añazos, la txapela del 4 y

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2008
    在Mix上，微软开始公布其Web战略的关键部分。微软发布了一款α版Silverlight1.1，使开发人员能够利用包括脚本语言在内的.Net语言编写能够在IE、Firefox、Safari上运行的...