Before we begin, Microsoft’s Silverlight, for those of you who don’t know, is a “cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.“ Silverlight is aimed squarely at competing with Adobe’s Flash player/application/framework and was a big hit at this year’s MIX07 conference.
If you are familiar with Silverlight, however, and are anxious to get started with it, Ian Moulster at his MSDN blog has an interesting video tutorial on streaming video using Silverlight technology. In his own words, Ian developed the video for those who might find themselves in the following scenario:
“…you have a video file on your hard drive and you want to get it up on the web and streaming. You want a high bitrate, no advertising, no third party branding, and need to have the ability to scale to a large number of users. And of course you don’t want to incur big bandwidth charges from your ISP if your video is really popular.”
If this sounds intriguing and you have some useful and/or useless video there on your desktop, read the blog entry from Ian and then check out the video. You can even create an account at silverlight.live.com and get 4GB to store your new streaming media.
By the way, in order to view Ian’s video, you need to have the Silverlight browser plug-in installed. You honestly didn’t think you were going to get to view it without the plug-in did you? Download it here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=86008.
