October, 2009

• 15 October

  Presentations at Streaming Media Europe

  I've been in London at Streaming Media Europe and gave two presentations which I've attached below. Here are the descriptions from the program.   Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive Download   This semin

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• 5 October

  Pre-MAX News: Flash Player 10.1 Is A New Milestone

  Here's the first half of Stefan's article. OverviewI'm not quite sure where to start, but I'll have a try: Flash Player 10.1 can be labeled as a 'real' fully featured Flash Player for mobile. It contains a lot of optimisations as well as new APIs

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September, 2009

• 29 September

  Snow Leopard for Video Producers

  Apple's Snow Leopard is short of the usual bling that Apple ships with new operating systems, but for video producers, power users and others with multiple core computers, it's a very significant release -- if you don't mind waiting until software

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• 26 September

  Encoding in the Cloud

  As streaming media enters its second decade, it’s not all that often that we get to explore a totally new topic. But now we do, as I recently took my first look at cloud encoding. What is cloud encoding? At a high level, it’s an intern

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• 20 September

  Streaming Gets Smarter: Evaluating the Adaptive Streaming Technologies

  In its “2008 Consumer Panel Broadband Survey,” IDC reports that 25% of all participants can successfully download a 1,200Kbps file, while a startling 69% of all respondents can retrieve a 2,400Kbps file. If you’re a media or ente

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• 10 September

  Producing VP6 Video – What You Need to Know

  Though overshadowed by H.264 in the news, On2’s VP6 is still the most widely used streaming codec in the world today. In this short article, you’ll learn what you need to know to produce video using the On2 VP6 codec, including the

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• 8 September

  Silverlight: What you Need to Know

  Microsoft Silverlight has gained lots of recent attention as a platform for live event streaming applications, and soon may have sufficient penetration for other web sites to consider using. This article tells you what you need to know about Silve

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August, 2009

• 24 August

  H.264 for the Newbie

  A comment on one of my posts inspired this collection of H.264 resources for the Newbie. If you learn best by reading, check out Producing H.264 Video for Flash: An Overview, which is a general article that covers why H.264 is the "it" codec and the

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• 15 August

  Some things I’ve done on Final Cut Studio 3

  I was fortunate to get an early look at Apple's new Final Cut Pro 7, and wrote several articles that you might find of interest. Millimeter - Apple Final Cut Pro 7: First Look Review. A good overview of the key new features. StreamingMedia.com - Appl

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• 14 August

  Smooth Streaming – Silverlight’s Trojan Horse

  I’ve written before that most consumers couldn’t care less if Microsoft pulled the plug on Silverlight, primarily because from their view -- that of the user -- it does little that Flash can’t do. I know, I know, there’s lot o

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