David Sayed's Microsoft Blog
Mostly about Microsoft media technologies.
How to Retrieve Files from Silverlight Streaming (SLS) and Post to Windows Azure
This article is now of historical interest only since the SLS service is no longer available. In...
Date: 01/08/2010
Firefox Information for Hosting Video on Azure
Thanks go to Tim Heuer for pointing this out (and providing this workaround). In the posts on...
Date: 01/08/2010
Embedding a Silverlight Video in a Blog
In this post, I will describe how to use Windows Live Writer to embed a Silverlight video into a...
Date: 01/07/2010
Creating and Publishing a Silverlight Video to Windows Azure
In this post, I will describe how to use Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 to encode and publish a...
Date: 01/07/2010
Setting up Windows Azure for video storage
In this post, I assume that you have already provisioned a Windows Azure account and have an active...
Date: 01/07/2010
Hosting Videos on Windows Azure
This is going to be a series of long posts. With Silverlight Streaming (silverlight.live.com) being...
Date: 01/07/2010
Silverlight Podcasts
After a short break, I’m pleased to offer up the latest Silverlight podcast. This time, the topic is...
Date: 01/06/2010
Alicia Keys Live from the Apollo this Thursday at 6pm PST – Powered by Microsoft Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming
On Thursday at 6pm Pacific Time, you’re invited to see Alicia Keys perform live! Watch the exclusive...
Date: 01/06/2010
Playing with JSON
I recently started to play with JSON. One of the immediate issues I found was reading the results...
Date: 12/02/2009
Streaming Media West
This week, I'm at Streaming Media West in San Jose, California. Seeing the sun, blue skies and...
Date: 11/16/2009
Innovative France 24 Silverlight Player (Updated)
Updated 10/14/2009: Player is now live on the front page of the France 24 website. Changed the link...
Date: 10/09/2009
Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards
We’ve been nominated in three categories for the 2009 Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards. There...
Date: 10/01/2009
Roll Up! Roll Up! Get Your Smooth Streaming Here!
Want to know more about Smooth Streaming in the real world? Join us on Thursday October 15th at 11am...
Date: 10/01/2009
Canal+ Launches FOOT+ Soccer Channel in Silverlight
Groupe CANAL, the premiere pay television channel in France with 10.6 million subscribers, is...
Date: 09/30/2009
Tech-Ed Japan Smooth Streamed
Tech-Ed Japan 2009 has embraced Smooth Streaming. You can watch the keynote (in Japanese) for a few...
Date: 08/26/2009
A Small Production System - Disk Performance
Uncompressed (or lightly compressed) video needs lots of disk space. More than that, if you’re...
Date: 07/22/2009
A Small Production System - Current Status
We're doing more and more video work in my team, the latest being some of the videos used for our...
Date: 07/18/2009
RAI Smooth Streaming
A nice demo of SD content using Smooth Streaming: https://www.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/hd/raitvhd.html?v=1
Date: 06/25/2009
DeepZoomPix Coolness
MSN Brazil is using DeepZoomPix on their site show off pictures from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival....
Date: 05/19/2009
CDNetworks Does Smooth Streaming
CDNetworks, a Korea-based CDN has introduced support for Smooth Streaming and it looks great! You...
Date: 04/28/2009
DeepZoomPix: a new way of experiencing photos
Today, we unveiled an exciting technology demo called DeepZoomPix. It enables you to experience a...
Date: 04/16/2009
CTV Streams HD Content with Silverlight
CTV, Canada’s largest private broadcaster, has some great high definition content on their HD Beta...
Date: 03/19/2009
Broadcast News
Colleagues in the field highlighted a couple of nice broadcast news sites outside the United States...
Date: 03/11/2009
How to Force Expression Encoder 2 Express Mode
Expression Encoder Express is a free version of Expression Encoder. If you have the full version and...
Date: 12/12/2008
How Netflix does encoding
Ever wondered how Netflix encodes their video material for their streaming service? This blog post...
Date: 11/19/2008
Netflix Brings "Watch Instantly" to Mac Users with Silverlight
I love Netflix and I love their Watch Instantly feature, which enabled me to discover and catch up...
Date: 11/03/2008
Geotate Automatic Geotagging at Photokina
Geotate is a very interesting British company who were showing their automatic geotagging technology...
Date: 10/13/2008
Demonstration von Expression Media in Deutsch
At Photokina, we were lucky enough to have a local Expression Media fan who spent pretty much...
Date: 10/13/2008
Office 2008 for Mac at Photokina
I spent some time with the Mac Office guys at Photokina who were showing the Special Media Edition...
Date: 10/13/2008
Expression Media 2 Service Pack 1 is here
Expression Media 2 SP1 is now available. If you are a Windows user and have opted to receive updates...
Date: 10/06/2008
Photokina Day 1
Yesterday was the first day of Photokina. I spent much of the day on the Microsoft stand talking to...
Date: 09/24/2008
Photokina
This week, I'm at Photokina with a large number of Microsoft people. If you're around, come and see...
Date: 09/22/2008
iView/Expression Media London Meet-up
Some of the Expression Media team will be in the UK the week of September 15th just before...
Date: 08/12/2008
Expression Media is Going to Photokina
Expression Media will be represented at Photokina in Cologne, Germany from September 23rd to 28th....
Date: 08/04/2008
Expression Media at the ProPhoto Summit
Some of the Expression Media team did an impromptu lunch session at the Microsoft ProPhoto Summit...
Date: 07/11/2008
Eye-Fi
Ziv Gilat's Eye-Fi demo at the ProPhoto Summit today was awesome. For those who don't know, Eye-Fi...
Date: 07/10/2008
Cuts Editing
Here's a hot new feature that will enhance how we do cuts editing in Expression Encoder. We're...
Date: 07/09/2008
How to Customize Expression Media Silverlight Galleries
Expression Media 2 includes support for publishing your catalogs as Silverlight galleries....
Date: 07/03/2008
Expression Studio 2 Keys
There have been some questions in the Expression forums about product keys and apparent confusion as...
Date: 06/24/2008
Expression Encoder Customer Panel
Now that Expression Encoder 2 has been released, the team is hard at work on the next version of the...
Date: 06/17/2008
AVCHD Testing
Having posted a method for compressing AVCHD directly in Expression Encoder 2, I thought I would see...
Date: 06/02/2008
AVCHD Recipe for Expression Encoder 2
I've been chatting with Scott Stanfield, CEO of Vertigo about AVCHD camcorders and we discussed how...
Date: 05/30/2008
Silverlight Galleries in Expression Media 2
Expression Media 2 features support for creating Silverlight web galleries, which means interactive...
Date: 05/22/2008
Free Expression!
Did you know that students can get Expression products for free? As part of Microsoft's family of...
Date: 05/12/2008
HDV Recipe for Expression Encoder 2
If you shoot HD video using a tape-based camera, you're probably shooting HDV....
Date: 04/30/2008