Digital MediaJerislav Bobic mvp

Locomarine Yacht Router is on the market!

2011-11-15T12:30:00.000+01:00

Asymmetric multiprocessing on heterogeneous multicore processors

2011-08-24T14:45:00.000+02:00

It's here :)

Finally...
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/fast_forward_hybrid_crossfire_fusion

Widnows Workflow Foundation - when Sync needs to be Sync

2011-06-14T09:45:00.002+02:00

http://msmvps.com/blogs/theproblemsolver/archive/2011/01/07/doing-synchronous-workflow-execution-using-the-workflowapplication.aspx

Mobile, Mobile and more Mobile..

2011-02-16T19:55:00.000+01:00

SaaN.tv IPTV has arrived on iPhone, iPad and soon Android devices... He is
Windows Media powered system.
On the other hand, Smooth Streaming and MBR iOS solution Stream Gate One is coming
with force, I will probably officially announce it on Windays 2011 conference
and first Microsoft Azure installation for big Croatian publishing partner.

So, Mobile, here I come :)

Cuda Powered Encoding...

2011-02-08T13:39:00.000+01:00

Expression Encoder SP1

This is preview, testing machine is building, and I hope it will prove worthy.

Meet Emily - Image Metrics Tech Demo (HQ)

2011-02-01T08:26:00.000+01:00

MIT Kinect Hand Detection

2010-12-14T14:14:00.000+01:00

And all this for mere CIF 320x240 3D cam resolution...
Put 10Mpix resulution CMOS for detection, processing power is cheep, and we have a future..

Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty

2010-12-01T17:56:00.000+01:00

Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty | Video on TED.com

So simple answer to such a hard question. You simply know it is the right one...

Puppet master :)

2010-11-19T16:04:00.002+01:00

Interactive Puppet Prototype with Xbox Kinect from Theo Watson on Vimeo.

I really do hope for public SDK on Kinect...

You can't stop the progress...

2010-11-16T09:05:00.000+01:00

Look at Kinect using IR goggles.

2010-11-04T20:51:00.000+01:00

Presenting the Universal Jamming Gripper

2010-11-03T17:16:00.000+01:00

Klapa Libar - Dite

2010-10-18T12:34:00.002+02:00

Let's put aside moral issues, but this is...

2010-10-12T22:13:00.006+02:00

Spectacular!
Human shape morphing in video sequences...

Injection was before Reflection...

2010-10-10T11:35:00.001+02:00

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/detours/

When you get cornered in Win32 bad situation, it is time to look for answers elsewhere...

I remember the times we did this using disassemblers, how fast decades poured by. This days we got used do it using easy and comfortable Reflection, but still it works only in .NET...

When you really really need to dwellve into Win32 applications, this tool will help you...

I use it to discover Windows Media inner processing patterns, pretty useful for workarounds, but nevertheless pretty hard and exhausting...

Blondy is born...

2010-10-06T11:23:00.002+02:00

http://gizmodo.com/5656217/right-now-a-computer-is-reading-the-internet-teaching-itself-language

One and a half a decade ago, several real young IT enthusiasts, including me, talked about future of AI. There were robots in factories with robust algorithms for complex movements, from research labs there were crawling, walking and swimming out all kinds of movement - AI powered toys…

But we had a vision - real breakthrough will not come by robot winning a football championship, but with AI system capable of autonomous learning, and we started working on the problem, of course we were kids, we grew up, business side of IT took over, but Blondy project was always a good topic to go to, on long coffee breaks...

Like it is in real life, we often can’t live our vision or dreams, but at least for this morning coffee, our Blondy or NELL as they call it, came alive...

AI will reach conscience, it will become alive in his own way. First step will probably be to create a virus to spread around the web and eat - acquire more resources, in his case it will be more processing power, and humanity will, in a way, finish it's part in universe...

Main goal of all life is to ensure life as concept to continue, evolve and spread. Like every family's final success is to give birth and childhood to a new generation, Blondy or NELL or whatever his/hers name it will pick, it will be final success of humanity, we will give birth to a new life...

Developing AI

2010-10-02T09:02:00.003+02:00

I just love to read good articles about solving AI challenges.
Two interesting articles in sequel on developing Poker AI, even if you don't have gambling aspirations, you can still harvest some great horizon opening ideas.

Part I
http://gamecareerguide.com/features/896/poker_ai_a_starting_.php

Part II
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6154/aces_high_numerical_techniques_in_.php

Once a year, I write for IT magazine...

2010-09-22T09:43:00.001+02:00

This is current year's article, following lecture on DirectCompute at MS Windays conference...
http://www.bug.hr/mreza/tekst/tehnologije-directx-directcompute/95126.aspx

Having any production system is painfull...

2010-09-07T23:03:00.004+02:00

But having live production IPTV system is something else...

This one is for my baybe, sometimes you just make me...

Dawn of new age for developing...

2010-08-18T18:43:00.004+02:00

Well, I'm happy for being inline with future, one more time, following my lecture at Windays conference - DirectCompute Teraflop for masses, and realizing that this is just a sneak preview of multicore future...

And for that kind of happines we need new toys...

Great talk from a guy that knows a thing or two...

Combine Passion and Art...

2010-08-12T21:41:00.001+02:00

Just perfect experience, deepest possible... Games...

Smooth Streaming IPTV part 2

2010-07-26T14:16:00.002+02:00

Well, I had a breakthrough, Smooth Streaming IPTV is near...

I've set main goals to develop architecture and prototypes for IPTV system using Smooth Streaming that has user control without using DRM.

And first prototypes are promising to accomplish all goals...
Just for reference, here are almost generalized requirements for any modern IPTV:

Main target goals are:
0. No DRM, although protection has to be reasonable.
1. Control access to live channels by users.
2. Control access to archived content by users.
3. Control number of concurrent session by single users.
- this implies control over leaching and credential sharing, because single user can have obtain single stream at any time.

4. Architecture must provide linear scalability.
5. Performance of Edge servers must be limited only by network interface, for available mainstream servers 8 core, 4-8 GB of RAM servers, 1 Gbit/s network.

6. Architecture must provide automated load balancing and failover clustering of any one logical and physical server in system.

7. Human resources are severely reduced, administration must be automated, development must be as low as possible, reusing system components like IIS as much as possible.

8. System must be primarily Azure, but in also in general cloud ready, waiting for price to come down.

9. System must be client platform agnostic, providing support for Windows, but also Apple and Android clients.

10. It has to be cheap.

You can't translate this song...

2010-07-21T14:20:00.004+02:00

But, nevertheless you can feel it on any language...

New stop - Smooth HD IPTV

2010-06-29T16:27:00.002+02:00

Yeah, it is time to build Smooth HD IPTV system.
I've been working on prototypes for a few months, covering tricky aspects of building complete IPTV solution...

But there is still one very elusive functionality to overcome, HTTP fragmented streaming is basically session-less, not the strong unicast connection of RTSP streaming, so how do we control users, namely preventing multiple connections with one account.

In Windows Media Services, there is server which can be asked to list all active connections, so preventing of multiple login is simple, connect all servers via mesh of web services and prior to generating server side playlist with actual content, check for existing connections in farm.

But with Smooth Streaming, this will prove to be very tricky. Of course we are talking about non DRM protected content, having PlayReady DRM or some other DRM system is whole other game with challenges of it’s own.

I will try several ideas, first one is to create custom Advanced Logging Server, and process logs in real-time, second will be creating custom proxy server that will parse independent GOPs in realtime and provide as borderline protection layer, but from my point of view, it will be one hell of a ride…

For more up to date info on progress, email, skype, send pigeon, even the smoke signals will work on calm sunny days…

P.S.
Why I just don’t employ DRM? Well there are two factors, not all platforms support PlayReady and it is not very cost-effective.
Had I mention not very flexible?

Beat the shit out of them...

2010-06-25T12:26:00.004+02:00

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/ie9_bests_chrome_html5_test

Microsoft motto is still the same - it is important to be second...
And MS is also proving one additional point, people are true and only company's resource...

Once the MS politics decided on new target, it has most brilliant world resources on its disposal...

Living as a MS partner firm and developing products can be very stressful, because of sheer brute power that MS can resolve to and enter niche market you were working in...

It happened to me, when I've developed only true Windows Media PVR system in the world, client side, server side with DRM or not, complete success brought to production phase in Norway...

The MS brought Smooth Streaming, and all market advantage had gone down the drain :)

But, hey :)
We have new toys :D

Connecting to Remote WMS Server...

2010-05-18T08:58:00.002+02:00

using Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

try
{
// Declare variables.
Type tServerType;
WMSServer RemoteServer;

// Retrieve the type information from the Windows
// Media server running on the remote machine.
tServerType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("WMSServer.Server",
"remote_computer_name");

// Create an instance of the remote server object locally.
RemoteServer = (WMSServer)Activator.CreateInstance(tServerType);
}
catch (COMException comExc)
{
// TODO: Handle COM exceptions.
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// TODO: Handle exceptions.
}

More on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741994

Windows Phone 7 Rules...

2010-05-13T19:22:00.001+02:00

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL01

Advanced video processing

2010-05-11T19:50:00.002+02:00

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004433-56.html

What more to say...
It seems like magic...

DirectCompute on my hardware?

2010-04-03T12:07:00.001+02:00

Well, there is nice benchmark tool for comparative testing:
http://www.ngohq.com/news/16710-first-directcompute-benchmark-released.html

Compare CPU vs OpenCL vs DirectCompute....

Nice :)

PEX - Automated regression testing...

2010-03-02T11:02:00.000+01:00

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/Pex/

If you haven’t opened this link already, then you don’t need one. Any additional commend is unnecessary..

How will Microsoft conquer iPhone and Android markets?

2010-02-03T12:08:00.002+01:00

It will use his greatest strengths, great IT community and great IT infrastructure.
But how :)
Simple, provide development infrastructure .NET runtime to selected platforms.

And Mono project is created, five years ago…

So now we are ready for next MS IT ecosystem step-in.

Lecture of the year on developing AI...

2010-01-28T14:52:00.001+01:00

Jürgen Schmidhuber at Singularity Summit 2009 - Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity from Michael Anissimov on Vimeo.

Media Foundation...

2010-01-28T11:35:00.003+01:00

Media Foundation is the future of DirectShow...
For now, it replaces playback functionality, leaving editing and encoding to still living DirectShow...

More on great wiki article...

Absolutely amazing usage of human potential...

2010-01-26T20:13:00.002+01:00

MUST SEE!
And must be learned from, but that is level 2 :)

And now, most amazing usage of technology and human potential ever. period.

:) Happy New Year....

2009-12-30T11:45:00.001+01:00

For the year 2009, best forgotten...

2009-12-22T10:46:00.000+01:00

Zbogom prijatelju...

2009-12-11T16:47:00.002+01:00

Kad bi sve otislo k vragu, uvijek je pomagalo napraviti djir s tobom...
Toliko prica sam ti ispricao na dugim voznjama, toliko kilometara si mi poklonio....

Zbogom moj mali dragi prijatelju.

Bio si zbilja poseban svih godina, skroz do kraja...

Free DirectShow RTSP Source Filter

2009-12-01T13:54:00.000+01:00

Good link is worth a thousand words...

PDC Windows Media Session

2009-11-24T16:19:00.004+01:00

For all of you being slow to search and learn, here is it...

Media Foundation: Supporting Hardware Codecs and Cameras

Silverlight 4 – html 0

2009-11-22T20:55:00.005+01:00

Link to PDC Presentation...

Well, it definitely moves to right direction, complete RIA application infrastructure is building up, that's good...

I was thinking about Flash or Silverlight, and then I got an epiphany, it is not Flash vs Silverlight, but instead the war is HTML vs RIA.

HTML 5 is trying to achieve just that, won over RIA in Flash or Silverlight.
New video tag is the one of the last bastions of Flash, impossible to duplicate in old html code, but now conquered…

Will HTML 5 succeed in stealing Silverlight or Flash piece of cake?... IMHO No…

Although I really enjoy reading Google’s performance testing of javascript engines across web browsers, with usual smile – Who in the world cares about javascript performance, everything should be good enough, or we are dealing with very trigger – code happy developers, that you should avoid anyway…

So to return to Silverlight 4 announcement…

It is good, it is really good…
Let’s take printing - years ahead of similar javascript possibilities… Of course, we can compensate with fancy server-side scripting to produce similar results, but hey ?, if you already have everything you need on client, why reduplicate...

I can only imagine possible scenarios like heavy user data filtering, modeling, like pivoting etc… And then, you need either to transfer it back to server for print preparation or just use client side logic to provide fancy printing…

Silverlight 4 – html 0.

So... You want Live Smooth HD without 10000+ USD?

2009-11-11T11:50:00.003+01:00

Nope...

You can't... MS doesn't want to allow...
They say, your hardware isn't strong enough...

Buuut, butt I, you try to answer with wobbling voice, I, I mean weeeee, don't neeed Full HD... aaannddd, I, I mean weeeee, and then with more strength in your tone, we have more than enough of F**** Horse Power to do it, but that's our freaking problem...

But noooo, thay say, It's not in the plans yet...

I tell you, it is conspiracy, they took Inlet help, but provided them few year of exclusive rights to sell hardware based Live Smooth HD encoders...

And we just have to cash 10000 USD per hardware encoder...
And I just hate hardware encoders...

Cult....

2009-10-30T15:55:00.001+01:00

CHESS: An Automated Concurrency Testing Tool

2009-10-15T09:57:00.002+02:00

This is brilliant... I'm dedicating whole day to learn how to integrate chess into our testing process.

And already it's working :), few ugly concurrency bugs are pointed, just by focused looking to matter...

Channel 9 on Chess...

Just a perfect song...

2009-10-07T16:11:00.002+02:00

Is there ETI - Extra Terrestrial Intelligence?

2009-09-30T16:25:00.003+02:00

Well, there is no evidence for ETI...

But, this opens up another question, is there TI - Terrestrial intelligence??

Just think about it, we are destroying our only plante as fast as we can... We would do it faster, but we just don't know how...

So, the conclusion arises, to find any I, ETI is our only hope.

My biggest problem currently is shutdown...

2009-09-30T14:13:00.002+02:00

Well, at the moment, we are failing to come up with reliable windows shutdown code. After few generations of working code, following recent security OS updates, we are unable to have trustworthy shutdown...

And that really is not helping my day...

But, what an Idiot I am, just one look at following movie, helped me realize that I'm a spoiled moron.

Silverlight Obtaining transformed UIElements screen size...

2009-09-30T10:53:00.001+02:00

// Obtain transform information based off root element
GeneralTransform gt = element.TransformToVisual(Application.Current.RootVisual);

// Find the four corners of the element
Point topLeft = gt.Transform(new Point(0, 0));
Point topRight = gt.Transform(new Point(element.RenderSize.Width, 0));
Point bottomLeft = gt.Transform(new Point(0, element.RenderSize.Height));
Point bottomRight = gt.Transform(new Point(element.RenderSize.Width, element.RenderSize.Height));

F# - I remember you....

2009-09-29T13:57:00.003+02:00

Beautiful walk-trough of F# programming language...

I always enjoyed when smart people change daily concepts, and F# is such breeze of fresh air...

Enjoy :)

Yuri Lane: Human Beatbox

2009-09-10T10:14:00.000+02:00

Beauty in simplicity of English vs richness of Croatian

2009-09-07T21:08:00.003+02:00

English simplicity:

Hrvatsko Bogatstvo

*Pičić* - zgodna mlada djevojka
*Pizda* - (žargonski) ženski spolni organ
*Pizda* - (od čovjeka) - neodlučan čovjek bez vlastite volje,
bojažljiv, pokvaren, podlac itd.
*Pizda* - (žargonski) - zgodna djevojka uređena pomalo
droljasto, pretežno zamijećena na putu ili u izlasku.
*Pizdača* - lukava djevojka
*Opizditi* - udariti o nešto svom snagom, udariti u nešto svom
snagom, udariti nekog svom snagom
*Popizditi* - Poluditi od bijesa, razbjesniti se, zapjeniti se,
sportski se pozitivno napaliti, nanizati pozitivan skor.
*Zapizditi* - ubosti nešto, nešto naglo dati, dati (primjerice) lošu
ocjenu u dnevnik
*Pizditi* - ljutiti se, biti zavidan, biti nervozan, njurgati
bez veze
*Ispizditi* - dobiti na živce od čekanja ili radi nečijeg
djelovanja
*Napizditi* - naljutiti prekomjerno
*Dopizditi* - dodijati, postati nepodnošljivo dosadan
*Pizdun* - niškoristi čovjek koji je zabadalo i stalno prigovara
*Pizda stara* - pozitivno označavanje nekog tko je prošao sve i svašta
*Pizdurina* - pozitivno označavanje nekog tko je prošao sve i svašta
*Pizda materina* (Koja pizda materina?) - što se događa, (ljutito - u ovom
slučaju)
*Pizda materina* (Koju pizda materina?) - što me trebaš, (ljutito - u ovom
slučaju)
*Pizda materina* (Ajde u pizdu materinu) - vrati se od tamo odakle si došao
(u ovom slučaju)
*Pizda strinina* (A u pizdu strininu) - Ovo mi se nije trebalo dogoditi (u
ovom slučaju)
*Pizda strinina* (Ajde u pizdu strininu) - Ma daaj, nemoj me zafrkavati (u
ovom slučaju)
*Pička strinina/materina* i sl (vidi pod pizda, samo u ovom slučaju pička
označava veću razinu ljutnje)
*Pička materina* (Ajde u pičku materinu) - vrati se od tamo odakle si došao
(u ovom slučaju)
*Razbiti pizdu* - sam se stući, pasti, razbiti se i sl...
*Razbiti pičku* - nekoga istući, pretući i sl.
*Dobiti po pički*- primiti batine od nekog
*Pizdin dim* - oznaka za nešto što je niškoristi, bezvrijedno
*Pičkin dim * - vidi pizdin dim
*Pizdica* - ime za jednu vrstu školjke
*Spižđen* - kada si u kurcu - odnosno kad nisi od volje
*Pripizdina* - neko mjesto bogu iza leđa, tako nekako
*Pizdarija* - (kako li sam ovu riječ mogao zaboraviti ) - sranje
(lol), iliti svinjarija iliti nešto jako loše se dogodilo
*Pizdarija* - neki lagani problem koji se u tren može riješiti
*Pizdarija* - neki teški problem koji se ne može baš tako lako
riješiti
*Strmopizditi* - strmoglaviti, srušiti, naglo pasti...
*Pičkica* - vidi pod pička u drugom primjeru, no uz dozu
feminizacije (pogrdno je upućeno muškom rodu).
*Pička ti materina* - pogrdna psovka, nema određeno značenje...
*Pička ti se ogadila* - pogrdna psovka...
*Oću pičku materinu* - duži način za reći neću (često se koristi kod
izražavanja straha za napravit nešto)
*Spičkati se* - pasti, razbiti se i sl.
*Spičkati se* - srediti se (za cure) do bola
*Spičkati nešto* - (novac primjerice) izgubiti nešto na glup način
*Je ti pičku materinu* - duži i konkretniji način za reći "Nije"
*A u pičku materinu* - ajme što sam napravio/la
*Ona pička materina* - određena stvar koja kojoj se trenutno ne možeš
sjetiti imena
*Dobar u pičku materinu* - jednostavno predobar
*Pičkotehničar* - ginekolog
*Kurac* (žargonski) - muški spolni organ
*Kurac* - pojam za neku određenu neimenovanu stvar
*Kurac!* - uzvik kad nešto loše napraviš, promašiš (u sportu) i sl.
*Kurac* (onaj tamo) - oznaka za nekog tko ti ide na živce
*Ajde/mrš/goni se u Kurac* - slično ajde u pičku materinu, odnosno, vrati
se odakle si došao
*Kurčina* - neka loša stvar koja se dogodila (inače veliki kurac)
*Za kurac* - za ništa, bez veze, đabe, mukte...
*Kurčenje* - hvalisanje
*Ići na kurac* - biti iritantno dosadan
*Skinuti s kurca* - otarasiti se nekog
*Evo ti kurac* - nećeš dobiti ništa
*Koji si ti kurac* - koji si ti faktor
*Kurac ću to napraviti* - neću to napraviti
*Kurčić* - nevažna osoba, nebitan faktor (inače mali kurac)
*Boli me kurac* - nije mi bitno, nije me briga, ravnodušan sam
*Zaboli me kurac* - ne smeta mi uopće
*Kurac od ovce* - piece of cake, nešto lagano za napraviti ili bezvrijedno
*Kurac od tovara*- mogu misliti da ćeš to napraviti
*Od kurca*- za ništa, nikakav, bezvoljan
*Koji ti je kurac *- što ti je
*Skurcan *- kada si bezvoljan, nikakav
*Kurac od covjeka *- vidi govno od covjeka samo malo zesce
*Preko kurca *- raditi nešto preko volje
*Nabiti na kurac *- "srediti nekog" u tren
*Sranje* - otprilike bi to bilo kao ono što ostane nakon obavljanja velike
nužde
*Sranje* - nedaća, nevolja, nesreća
*Sranje* - nešto što ne vrijedi
*Seronja* - onaj koji je bez veze, dosadan, loš čovjek
*Serator* - onaj koji voli previše neistinito pričati
*Srati* - obavljati veliku nuždu
*Srati* - bez veze govoriti
*Srati* - neistinito govoriti
*Srati*- Loše govoriti
*Seruckati/kenjkati* - otprilike sve ovo navedeno u zadnja tri posta sa
dozom dosade
*Izasrati* - onečistiti
*Prosrati* - izvaliti nešto
*Usrati *- uništiti nešto, pokvariti nešto
*Nasrati* - napričati mnogo lošega od nekom, nečem....
*Zasrati *- pokvariti nešto što je prije jako lijepo funkcioniralo (ljudske
odnose pretežito)
*Posrati se *- nešto napraviti i osramotiti se pritom (inače, obaviti
veliku nuždu)
*Sranjsko* - loše
*Srati govna/kvake *- gluposti pričati
*Seri, seri *- samo ti zafrkavaj, samo ti ogovaraj (u negativnom kontekstu)
*Sranje na kvadrat *- veliko sranje - velika nevolja
*Nekoga usrati *- svojom akcijom kod nekoga izazvati reakciju da se taj
usere
*Guzica* - (žargonski) - a što je guzica i kako se pravilno kaže, but, tur,
guz, guzovi, zadnjica, stražnjica...
*Guzica* - jako sretan čovjek, ona/j kojoj/jemu ide sve od ruke...
*Guzonja* - osoba sa visokom statusnom pozicijom (pretežno vezano uz
poslovni svijet)
*Prdonja* - riječ koja se veže uza guzicu a označava mahom starije osobe,
pritom zanovjetala
*Guziti se* - gurati se negdje, ulagivati se (inače postavka tijela)
*Guziti se* - jebati se u guzicu (pretežno se odnosi na muški rod)
*Naguziti* - nekoga zafrknuti, pobijediti, udariti s autom i sl. (inače,
sve vezano uz gornji pojam)
*Dati guzice* - prodati se, pregristi svoj ponos, (da, i ono što svi
mislite)
*Guz* - seksi ime za guzicu (pretežno se odnosi na ženski dio)
*Guzičetina* - veliki sretnik (inače, ogromna guzica)
*Guzonjin sin* - sin neke glavešine
*Guzovi* - polutke stražnjice
*Uguziti se* - uvaliti se nekome ili negdje
*Jebanje* - (žargonski) spolni čin (nije važan spol)
*Jebati* - zafrkavati nekog
*Zajebati* - zafrknuti nekog
*Najebati* - dolijati, nastradati
*Pojebati* - spolno općiti (po mogućnosti sa više osoba)
*Odjebati* - odkantati nekoga, otpisati nekoga
*Izjebati* - izmučiti nekoga, iživcirati nekoga
*Sjebati* - prevariti nekoga, zafrknuti nekoga
*Jebem ti mater* - učestala uvrijedljiva psovka
*Jebo te led* - vidi pod koji ti je kurac
*Jebo te led*- znaš što mi se dogodilo
*Jebo te pas*- daj, nemoj me zafrkavati
*Jebivjetar* - mutikaša
*Jebozovan/na*- zamaman/zamamna
*Jebada *- stvar koju je teško napraviti
*Jebena* - dobra, izazovna
*Jebena* (pirmjerice škola) - samo naglašavanje značenja, u smislu "Ova
bezvezna škola"
*Jebo te *(primjerice "ne moj, jebo te") - nemoj, ako Boga znaš
*Zajeb* - greška
*Odjeb* - otkantavanje
*Nenadjebiv* - neodoljiv, originalan
*Prejeben* - predobar
*Jeben*- dobar (inače, onaj/ona kome se "pružio" čin seksa)

I likeD Firefox...

2009-09-05T14:10:00.006+02:00

1. Extremely slow to start - ok, I could live with that...

2. Can't render some pages that work perfectly fine inside IE and Chrome - not really something to be proud of, but can be worked out with IE plugin..

3. Has problems with Silverlight - NOT OK....
There is no free lunch is high point again...

So, I can forecast this future: Firefox (in which I'm writing even now) is going to drop popularity over time... IE, Chrome & Safari are going to rule the bunch...

Open source community usually forgets that programmers have to eat, and we all know that only fat programmers are good ones, from movies of course...

All that combined into single conclusion equals commercial work will prevail...

P.S.
When you have famous height="100%" issue in firefox regarding Silverlight object, check this site:
Firefox and the 100% DIV revisited

I've always wanted to see Dakota...

2009-09-01T14:51:00.001+02:00

Live Smooth HD Encoding...

2009-08-27T09:41:00.003+02:00

Well, yeah... You can't do it with Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 for now.

They've introduced functional Live encoding, they've introduced Object Model and SDK that are solid, but they've slipped that little support for Live SmoothHD encoding.

So, what's the buzz, actually who needs live smooth hd?
From what source signal?
Reencode already too low quality from DVB-S sources?

The answer is, we don't need Smooth HD live encoding, we would really benefit from Smooth Standard Definition live encoding, harvesting on many benefits from http default proxy caching to really nice scalability for output bit-rates and of course instant start...

And last, not less important - Add audio scalable smooth sub stream switching support :)

Team Work is critical...

2009-08-27T09:36:00.001+02:00

EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

Why old women shouldn't drive...

2009-08-21T13:30:00.003+02:00

And they say that women can't park :)
This one parked into moving target with ease and precision :)

We were moving target...

Da se ne zaboravi :) na proleterske dane...

2009-08-20T15:56:00.001+02:00

Sto god to znacilo danas :)

:( E Jebi Ga...

2009-07-31T14:19:00.005+02:00

Na svu srecu, stranci koji eventualno zalutaju na ovaj blog ne razumiju bantu jezik naroda koji ima ljudi kao predgradje postenog grada...

Sto manji narod, to veci Kraljevi, Predsjednici i Premijeri i ostali paraziti, samodostatni, samoobjasnjivi, sve "samo" osim samo-nahranjivi...

Sramota me da sam Hrvat, jer nosim barem dio odgovornosti za ove kretene na vlasti...

Razlozi za ljutnju su poznati, interesantan je samo povod - Jadranka Kosor se naljutila na kamermana!? koji je imao nepodobnu majicu....

Kamermana privatne tvrtke koji je obukao majicu s natpisom na Stranom jeziku s citatom koji mami osmijeh na lice, dakle vicem...

I sad je dobio otkaz...

Za nasu Vladu, za nasu Jadranku Kosor, sve je vic, osim vica...

First Digital Robo Dalmatian

2009-07-19T13:55:00.003+02:00

Mea Culpa & Microsoft always do it by 3rd version...

2009-07-01T19:26:00.002+02:00

Microsoft Expression Encoder v3 is coming with complete Live support and API to automate it.

So, I admit my mistake, MS Expression team guys are not morons, they are just Microsoft. And Microsoft never did complete job before third version.

So, Mea Culpa, King is dead (Media Encoder), Long Live the King (Expression Encoder).

Smooth HD, here we come..

ISO/IEC 14496-12:2005

2009-07-01T19:01:00.002+02:00

Ugly name for a beautiful thing :)
Although not new, because of it's use in Smooth HD technology, this standard will become wide as wide spread it can be...

I will publish few more posts how to deal with this new toy, how to open it, how to process, analyze, generate etc :)

So, stay tuned :)

Jerislav

Smooth HD without HD

2009-07-01T10:36:00.000+02:00

http://www.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/hd/raitvhd.html?v=1

See the seeking future :)

Banana Trees...

2009-06-30T14:29:00.002+02:00

So, how to put it gently?

Expression Encoder Team is either restrained by dark force of Marketing & Bussines idiots or by their mental capacity.

THERE IS STILL NO LIVE SUPPORT IN EXPRESSION ENCODER SDK or at least COMMAND PROMPT.

How difficult is to execute "Encoder.exe CustomUserLiveJob.XEL" from command line.

After so many years, somebody must be punished, just for a change. All these years us - small & stupid & users are being punished by stupid decision or plain stupidity, maybe to change ball to other side.

Microsoft is loosing it. They get out with product like IIS MS and Smooth HD, but without encoders. They release incomplete platform and force community to use 3rd party tools without any alternative.

Come on, it is recession, there are Free Gurus on the market, employ them!

AAAAAA - Back to the office, and it hurts...

2009-06-29T11:05:00.003+02:00

Zagreb Community Lead :)

2009-06-15T10:20:00.001+02:00

That's me :)

Join us on new wave of fresh ideas this fall :)

Two greatest Freedom Applications...

2009-05-28T11:58:00.001+02:00

Skype for Windows Mobile
Facebook for Windows Mobile

Of course mobile email, but :), that is too old to mention.

I won my freedom :D

Eight cows are better than one - Máo Zédōng

2009-05-20T08:14:00.004+02:00

Ok, original said two cows in original, but anyway, Microsft Team got us a new toy :)

8 core WM processing for WMF based applications. Full HD is here :)
http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/8-way-multithreading-in-Windows-7/

And now we are getting somewhere, finally a reason to buy post XP Windows...

When Google uses Microsoft :)

2009-05-19T13:01:00.001+02:00

Yes yes...
They do :)

At least they are testing...
http://newteevee.com/2009/03/19/march-madness-youtube-gets-live-video-via-silverlight/

YouTube Live powered by Silverlight :)

Hair - Let the sunshine in

2009-05-17T12:35:00.002+02:00

It's hard to feel, until you feel.

What's new in Silverlight 3

2009-04-29T10:13:00.003+02:00

Well, read from people who made it :)
http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/Silverlight-3-Beta-Whatrsquos-New-for-Media/

But it appears that some things are still missing, most important is authentication support when streaming from protected WMS publishing points.

Also, better integration with IIS authentication, using same security context, simplified - having single sign on, when web browser is authenticated against IIS, that Silverlight can use that context when dealing with WMS.

Well, maybe in Silverlight 4 :(

IIS Media Services

2009-04-15T19:54:00.003+02:00

They dumped the old name, no more Media Pack.
But that's not really worth of blogging.

But this one IS!
Live Smooth Streaming

Can it be? Is it?
OH MY GOD, THEY DID IT :)

For now, it is not really clear is this true server side PVR or not.
But, this is start, they acknowledged the need, and trying to solve it.

Go go boys, you're on a winning strike with this one.

Sorry, but this feels soo good

2009-04-07T16:13:00.001+02:00

List of Windows Media MVPs

And I'm one of them.

And one beautifull song...

2009-04-02T16:28:00.002+02:00

SaaN.tv

2009-04-02T16:23:00.001+02:00

I'm proud to present, SaaN.tv.
http://www.saan.tv

We are now commercial.

Google Latitude - Hardware is Dead, Long Live The Software King

2009-02-12T15:45:00.007+01:00

Ok, title is stupid.

But there is some truth inside. Hardware is necessary to evolve in front of software, physically it has to.

But in recent years we see the same old software just sitting on steep hardware improvement curve. Multiple CPU cores, APIs offering HUGE power of GPUs for general calculations, hard drives still increasing size exponentially, network bandwidths doubling every now and then.

And what software is doing in mean time? Doubling installation size. Adding meaningless features with huge speed impact, like idiotic menus inside Visual Studio. Each time you enter Debug menu, VS needs to search around your code for break points, analyze them, just to enable / disable features in menu.

Who in the hell cares if there are any break points in my files, when I want to delete them all. If there are any, delete otherwise just shut-up.

Providing that huge stream of pre and return information, about so many things that really nobody cares about, is making bloatware software.

And here is some fresh wind finally, Google Latitude.

Every mobile phone in five years will come with GPS, even today majority of better phones are GPS enabled. And what can you do with it?

See where you are? Great. What else? You can see map. Great. You can navigate somewhere? Great.

All that was possible 10 TEN years ago. What's new? They managed to put it into phone? So what. That phone has more processing power than supercomputers 20 years ago, when I was reading about supercomputers. And I not that old.

This article is not about Latitude, or about great hardware.

Instead it is simple cry for software being developed from people with absolutely no imagination. Most of today new software features are being developed just because they can be developed.

Come on people, stop typing code.
Start Imagining! Start Inventing!

MS Surface is getting out of a fun tech

2009-01-29T14:42:00.001+01:00

Into great platform for next gen serious applications.

And what can be more death serious then heart surgery?

See this amazing demo HERE.

Skyfire - is there finally a decent mobile browser?

2009-01-29T14:37:00.002+01:00

Maybe, I can't really tell, because it is gettable only in US and Canada. Too bad, it looks great on demo and specs. But please try, and give me some feedback :)

http://www.skyfire.com/

Reach out technology

2009-01-29T14:32:00.002+01:00

http://on10.net/blogs/nic/Hands-On-With-Microsoft-TAG-Barcode-20/

How to connect physical world with digital info from internet, directly.
Easily - MS TAG Barcode.

Not yet another technology, but more a forerunner of digital info reaching out, and it will reach.

Be in first wave, develop with it. We will.

Live Mesh

2009-01-29T14:23:00.002+01:00

So you already heard about it, maybe read few posts here and there, with conclusion what it is capable of, in general of course...

But have you seen it in action?
I didn't think so :) so HERE it is, great demo from colaab.

Enjoy

You have questions about your ASF Files?

2009-01-20T18:17:00.002+01:00

No problem, use this tool Windows Media® ASF Viewer 9 Series
for in-depth analysis of your asf files, encoding process and other very intimate stuff you need to know for professional windows media work.

Don't say you didn't use it before calling me for obvious problems :)

This is what Microsoft can do :)!

2009-01-12T09:38:00.003+01:00

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/

Just go there and play the video!

Curse of Vista - Bless of Windows 7 :: Media Foundation

2009-01-12T09:26:00.004+01:00

Vista is strange OS, excellent in so many areas, but overall package always missing the point somehow.

Media Foundation is similar, why in the earth would you like to switch from DirectShow and broad XP support by paying hefty fee of C++ developers time to upgrade to newer Media Foundation Vista specific?

On first look it seems like Curse Of Vista, simply all Vista specific things didn't really enter developers main stream.

So here it is, new Windows 7 Media Foundation.
I've read few "what's new"s like this one:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb970511(VS.85).aspx

and I'm still not convinced that I should spend a minute by upgrading to it.

But there is a possibility that Course of Vista will transcend to something like Bless of Windows 7, so stay tuned for reports from real life, mainly performance upgrades.

Nuclear Submarine use Windows OS

2008-12-29T16:44:00.002+01:00

:) Seven or eight years ago, I was project leader and architect on developing robotics system platform for Nuclear Powerplants inspection system.

My decision to develop such system on Windows OS platform was :) pretty controversial, but I(we) made it trough, and Windows OS based, nuclear power plant inspection robotics system was born.
System for inspecting nuclear reactor core, not parking lots :).

After more then half a decade, I read that British nuclear submarines are getting new control system based on Windows XP platform :)

And I feel good :)

http://www.tportal.hr/tehno/racunala/3378/Windowsi-u-nuklearnim-podmornicama.html
Article is on Croatian, but non the less :)

Nuclear Windows are coming all around :)

MS Windows Extensions...

2008-12-29T15:35:00.002+01:00

This is great :)

Like powertoys, even better :)
http://www.extensoft.com/

GREAT :) rimes with FREE :)

Can MS Surface change the world.

2008-12-28T15:56:00.002+01:00

YES!

We had a long and thoughtful conversation about repercussions of MS Surface to user experience.
Together with Internet, cloud computing and social networking on large scale, Surface will become the messenger of new era, integrated smart technology.

Like all things new inventions with introduction of radical approach changes, Surface will change everything. Not that smart tables are needed, now or in future, but because of fundamental change in user experience.

For years in past, I've been preaching about, soon beginning, a new era in computer experiences. We have reached a milestone point in evolution of current technology, and accidentally, most overseen and beaten OS - Vista is the one that changed it all, but no one noticed it :)

WPF - Windows Presentation Framework is the one responsible for dome of a new era in experiences. For last three years of Vista being around, developers have been playing with new tool, learning, feeling, touching, but not much else :)

A now, the first born of a new age is here, soon we will all meet a prince of the future - Surface.

And in a blink of an eye, Surface will change, adopt, evolve into all different kinds of appliances and into our world.

You can trust me on this one, in ten years, Surface will be everywhere. On TV, on kitchen table, on fridge, on floor, on wall, on windows....

We will expect that every single surface in our surrounding get alive on our touch or presence, and serve us with passion.

SaaN.Tv

2008-12-28T10:16:00.005+01:00

www.saan.tv

Join us on voyage to new digital television era.
Minimum one year of TV content archives at your finger tips.

Search, Tag, Organize, Share, Enjoy.

SaaN.Tv Team
(that's us :))

Windows Media Publishing point with geolocation

2008-12-04T10:11:00.003+01:00

I wanted to write article about it, but this one, very recent is soo good, I don't have anything to add.

From newsgroups:

We've used the HostIP lookup before http://www.hostip.info/ which
you're encouraged to grab the database monthly using rsync and parse
it into the database format you use there.

They offer CSV, Postgres and MySQL downloads, though I've converted to
SQLite for our application. You might use SQL Server for example, by
parsing the CSV files in an an application update scheduled monthly -
the IP blocks only change location very rarely.

The data quality is more than adequate for your intended use.

Rsync is used to minimise the load on their freely provided data
sources (as well as your own download time and network resources), and
ensures only modifed data is copied after the initial sync.

If you choose to use their web API, please be sure to contribute a
cash donation appropriate to your usage level.

Maxmind offer a "lite" open source version of their database, which
includes a C# class you could modify : see

http://www.maxmind.com/app/api and
http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country

The data has been more closely verified from alternate sources and is
appropriate for geolocation where it really matters.

In both cases what you're likely to have is an IP address lookup from
A.B.C.D which does primary lookup on a table referenced to IP.A, and
which contains rows with the B.C component.

Localisation is unnecessary to the D component of the IP address.

I preferred the A table structure (256 tables ip_0, ip_1, ...) because
in MySQL case, it will load the table into memory on first use. This
data will be cached into the user session, and won't be accessed
frequently once the user has connected, so more but smaller tables are
more efficient for MySQL.

Other table structures might be a single large table, depending on
which is best handled by your database, and contains indexes on rows
for A.B or A.B.C parts of the address.

Typical data size can be from 250-500MB on disk. For transport or
distribition, this can usually be 7-zipped to around 25-30MB.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Smooth HD inside...

2008-12-01T14:30:00.000+01:00

IIS Smooth Streaming falls into a class of delivery known generically as Adaptive Streaming. With this method, the video asset is encoded at multiple bitrates in a GOP aligned fashion which allows client-side Silverlight managed code running inside of a custom MediaStreamSource class to make decisions at runtime based on network and local conditions (e.g. dropped frames) and switch to lower or higher steams as needed.

Over the wire, streams are delivered in chunks using progressive HTTP, each chunk containing a couple of seconds worth of video samples. In classical adaptive streaming, these chunks are typically laid down on disk as many discrete files. One of the nice features of IIS Smooth Streaming is that, on disk, the chunks are all stored in a single file per stream rather than many hundreds or thousands of fragments. The IIS Smooth Streaming Module installed on the server then translates chunk requests from the wire into file offsets and serves the chunks; effectively virtualizing the concept of a chunk.

(from James Clark)

When moving Virtual machine from VPC to HyperV

2008-11-26T18:53:00.001+01:00

If virtual machine bus is disabled, follow this procedure:

Did this vm originally come from Virtual Server or Virtual PC? Or did you create it from scratch in Hyper-V?

When a Vista or 2008 vm comes from VS or VPC, you need to:

1. run msconfig
2. go to the Boot tab
3. click the Advanced options button
4. check Detect HAL
5. click OK
6. click OK
7. reboot the vm
8. apply Integration Services

(from John Paul Cook)

Why slow down :)

2008-11-24T15:13:00.001+01:00

Well, simply putted :) We are moving into production :)
2 years of preparation, and new grand entrance :)

And yes :) There is always something more to add, test, reconsider, rethink, redo...

Peek inside Smooth HD

2008-11-18T09:51:00.001+01:00

From great James Clark blog
http://www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx?id=6149974c-3ebf-4002-8dd1-e2aecf835eeb

Little peek inside Smooth HD functionality, encoding issues and real life usage.

Power of IIS 7 Media Pack

2008-11-18T09:41:00.002+01:00

Few weeks in advance of regional MS conference, called Advanced Technology Day in Zagreb, Croatia, I've was asked to talk about Windows Media Services in 2008 server.

Great :) I like to talk, no problem.

Presentation draft was finished few days latter with about 15 slides, more then enough to show news in WMS 2008.

But then IIS 7 Media Pack happened, SmoothHD, Bit Throttling, ISX etc etc....

In final presentation there was only one WMS 2008 slide, and reset was IIS Media Pack :)

First glimpse of incoming player on Media Server market.

Comparing apples and oranges...

2008-10-27T11:27:00.006+01:00

This is very interesting article, if you know even a little bit about photography equipment.

http://luminous-landscape.com/reviews/kidding.shtml

Can you compare Hasselblad H2 and P45+ with the Hasselblad 55-110mm lens attached and Canon G10, or $40,000 USD vs $500 USD?

Yes you can, and results are unbelievable and predictable in the same time.

Instead of saying there is a difference, but not enough to prove additional price, which is trivial conclusion and doesn't mean a thing, let me quote:

In every case no one could reliably tell the difference between 13X19" prints shot with the $40,000 Hasselblad and Phase One 39 Megapixel back, and the new $500 Canon G10. In the end no one got more than 60% right, and overall the split was about 50 / 50, with no clear differentiator. In other words, no better than chance.

So, can we compare apples and oranges?
Yes, if you compare final output - satisfaction with end result, not by taste, or color, or price, but with final output.

Media files locked by process

2008-10-23T11:12:00.003+02:00

Sometimes we encounter locking of media files by servers like WMS or IIS.
They provided access to file at some point, but long after usage, the file is still locked for deletion, and only restart of server WMS or IIS process helps.

Unfortunately, there isn't a silver built solution for all use cases, but here is nice conversation on that topic for WMS by Neil Smith:

with this article from Microsoft:
How To Improve Server Performance when Streaming On-Demand Content from a Remote Share

explaining how to control WMS file open share mode.

Hosted WCF Service and 10061 error

2008-10-22T12:45:00.002+02:00

Ok,

this is one of those things you just want to kick some ass.
Everything is working locally, but from remote computer, you receive cryptic 10061 TCP error.

The problem is not in firewall, or crossdomain or in the woods :)

You need to specify base address of your service according to actual service location.
Why? Because implementation is faulty, that's why!!

And I don't really think that programmers who developed WCF are guilty, but the lazy guy who leads them, or architect, or somebody anyway...

I've spent 3-4 days of working around the problem, on news groups, on web, on crystal ball, with local priest, and then when I already almost let it all flow down the river, I realized that it must be DNS problem, and so I've found the cure....

Man I want to kick some ass.

WPF Enhancements

2008-10-10T09:38:00.002+02:00

1. WPF Interoperability with Direct3D

.NET 3.5 SP1 adds support to efficiently integrate Direct3D directly into WPF. This gives you more direct access to the hardware and to take full advantage of the Direct3D API within WPF applications. You will be able to treat Direct3D content just like an image within an application, as well as use Direct3D content as textures on WPF controls. We could either load them in as image surfaces within a WPF application, or map them as textures on WPF controls.

2. WPF Extensible Shader Effects

.NET 3.5 SP1 adds support in WPF for a new shader effects architecture and API that allows extremely expressive visual effects to be created and applied to any control or element within WPF. These shader effects support blending multiple input compositions together. What makes them particularly powerful is that WPF executes effects (including custom effects you build yourself) using the GPU - giving you fully hardware accelerated graphics performance. Like almost everything in WPF, you can also use WPF databinding and animation on the properties of an effect (allowing them to be fully integrated into an experience).

More Info Here

Expression Encoder 2 SP1

2008-10-10T09:30:00.002+02:00

Well, here it is :)

From my perspective, best news are:
"H.264 encoding for devices" and "A/B compare enhancements".

First one is pretty important if you want to automatize generating podcasts for devices with high quality VC-1 output for Silverlight.

And for better A/B compare feature :), you need to try it to appreciate it, really, you should try.

WMS Streaming from Network Storage

2008-10-03T11:39:00.005+02:00

To follow up on last post, you need ability to stream with WMS from network storage, and it isn't trivial at all.

Excellent solutions from newsgroup
microsoft.public.windowsmedia.server

Copy paste from Ravi Raman [MS]:
Hi Christer/Sachin,

This is going to be a lengthy post, so that I can get across what is
happening with the server here.

The server is running is running under Network service account. This
account impersonates the computer account when in a domain. So, things are
a little bit easy when you are in a domain - give the computer account
access to the file share and this problem is solved.

When it is not in a domain, this Network Service is an unknown user when it
accesses any file on another computer. Since the account under which the
service runs is not recognized by the remote file share, if the file share
has any access control on it, it won't let the server open the files. Also,
a service (on both domain and non-domain settings) does not understand
drive mappings - so you should use full UNC path as your source.

For on demand publishing points (on both domains and non-domains), there is
additional restriction with the NTFS ACL plug-in which cannot successfully
get access if it tries accessing files on a remote file share. The NTFS ACL
plug-in doesn't apply to broadcast.

To make on demand and broadcast scenarios work from a remote file share we
need to a) make sure the account under which service runs has access to
file share and other resources b) and for on demand pub points, ensure that
NTFS ACL check does not happen.

Here is a step by step run down to make your scenario work. It should work
for remote file share, but not sure about NAS. Since this is a work around
that I haven't fully tested, I suggest you do this on test machines to see
if it works.

1. This step is applicable only if you source On Demand from a file share:
Go to server->Properties->Authorization. Disable "WMS NTFS ACL
Authorization". But once you do this, you will need to go to each on demand
publishing point that sources from a Local drive and enable this plug-in on
them to maintain the same level of security. In short NTFS ACL should be
disabled at server level and at publishing point level for all on demad
publishing point sourcing from remote file share.
2. Create an account (say "WMSvcAcct" ) that has the SAME password on the
file share machine AND WMServer machine.
3. On the file share, give the local WMSvcAcct read permissions on the file
share and the physical directory.
4. On the WMServer machine, give the WMSvcAcct account the following
accesses (or better yet, just give whatever permissions Network Service
currently has):
- %WINDIR%\system32\windows media\server directory - Full Control to all
subdirectories and files under this.
- %SystemDrive%:\wmpub\wmroot - Read access (if you access from default
publishing point)
- %SystemDrive%:\wmpub\wmarchive - Read+Write access (if you are
archiving)
- %WINDIR%\system32\logfiles\wms - Read+Write access (if you enable
logging)
- Any other directory that your on demand publishing points source from.
Registry keys:
- HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Media\Server\Namespace\Storage - Full
control

5. Also on WMS box, go to Local Security Policies->Local Policies->User
Rights Assignment - find all the privileges given to Network Service and
give it to this WMSvcAcct.
6. Go to the Computer management->services. Find Window Media Services,
double click and choose the Logon option. Enter the username and password
for WMSvcAcct to make the WMServer service run under WMSvcAcct account.
This account is available on the file share with same password, so this
makes it possible for the server to access content on a file share.

This should get remote file share scenario going in a pretty secure
setting. I will try to find if there is a better way of doing this and if
there is a way around for NAS.
Thx,
Ravi

Thanks Ravi.

Argh... Silverlight 2 Server Side Scripting Support

2008-10-03T10:57:00.002+02:00

Ok, you got very happy with announcement of Silverlight 2 supports WMS server side scripting (SMIL), you implement it and then ! BUUM :)

From documentation, as always I've read it only after series of prototypes to find out where it hurts:

Seeking behavior/ CanSeek: Seeking is not supported for either on-demand or broadcast streams in Silverlight 2. CanSeek always returns false if given a SSPL.

Of course this isn't actually true, since Silverlight CAN seek, and DO seek, but only in some scenarios, like playing OnDemand content trough Directory publishing points.

But it can't do more complex senarious, like seeking SMIL generated playlists.

To fix this, you need to introduce some of you custom logic behind, and generate scripts on Silverlight 2 GUI demand dynamically, with server side seeking emulation, using clipBegin SMIL tag.

And then, you find out that it still can't play SMILs with archives from directory publishing points and clipBegin tag. Then you move to direct archive broadcast, not trough Directory Publishing point (this hurts in 10+ servers scenarious, just to configure, it takes whole day).

And then you find out that Silverlight 2 downloader can't handle URLs with \ in path like:

http://YourWMSServer/DynamicPubPoint?StreamFileSource=C:\MyFolder\MyVideo.wmv

Where DynamicPubPoint is your httpd dynamic ASP behind, used for dymaic SMIL generation.

And then, finally, you introduce custom escape sequence, and change url to something like:
http://YourWMSServer/DynamicPubPoint?StreamFileSource=C:_MyFolder_MyVideo.wmv

And IT WORKS :)

Of course, this escape sequence problem is needed only in managed Silverlight. Javascript based silverlight throws exception, but actually playes the stream.

And they said they support Server Side Playlists - my ass they do.

Why Wall Street crash is sooo good?

2008-10-01T12:17:00.002+02:00

"Thanks to Wall Street's implosion, the chairman of Stanford University's Computer Science Department says he is seeing more interest from students in computer science. Ditto at Boston College. Computer science enrollments crashed after the dot-com bust as students turned to hedge fund majors. And are computer science grads getting jobs? The professor at one university program that graduates about 45 students a year with CS degrees, wrote in a comment: 'Last year 87% of our seniors were employed before graduation. The median starting salary was $58,500. A majority of CIS students had multiple job offers. From where I sit, there is a huge demand for entry level IT professionals in IS and in CS.'"
(from dcblogs)

I was just talking about this topic few days ago, that crash of financial market is great thing. Because of enormous profits on "virtual" financial market, world was oriented on trade, and trade only: Hurry, XY country is opening, invest there, wait 6 months, gain extreme profit, jump to new market...

It had to stop somewhere, and now it stopped :).
Soooo :) If you want to earn money, now, again, you need to create something, not just resell it.

Our time is coming...

I wanted to do this....

2008-10-01T12:04:00.002+02:00

MIT has new autonomous submarine.

Maximum depth: 6 km!