Tag Archives: Windows Media Video/VC-1

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

Earlier this week, I posted a column relating to Silverlight observations made while teaching a seminar at Stanford. My colleague, Stefan Richter, posted a snippet of the column on his site, www.flashcomguru.com, a premiere learning site for Flash de

All’s been quite on the Streaming Learning Center front as I spent the last week teaching several courses on streaming media production and encoding at the lovely Stanford Campus at Palo Alto. Other than a quick sneak peak at the ne

This article compares the CPU required to play VC-1, H.264 and VP6 streams.

A 45 minute presentation comparing VP6, VC1 and H.264

This workshop focuses on comparing the quality, playback environment, and feature sets of the big three codecs (VP6, H.264, and Windows Media), including a comparison of the primary H.264 codecs including Apple, Main Concept, Telestream, and others. Attendees will also get an introduction to universal encoding parameters, like variable and constant bitrate encoding and I, B, and P frames, and then learn the technical requirements for producing files with each codec. During the final hour, the workshop will analyze which sub-$1,000 encoding tools do the best (and worst) jobs with each format.

Microsoft Silverlight is like the proverbial elephant; your impression depends upon where you touch it. In this article, I'll touch it at the Expression Encoder, which is the encoding component of Expression Studio. Specifically, this article desc