Additional WMV encoders / muxers

WMV Muxer/Encoder by DVBPortal - A simple WMV muxer and encoder useful for muxing VC-1 streams into ASF without recompressing. Encoder feature requires .prx profiles which can be customized using the WM Profile Editor from the WME9 package.

WMNicEnc - Nic’s WMV encoder takes Avisynth input only and supports all the advanced encoding settings of VC-1. Small, easy and effective.

VC-1 encoder FREE

http://nic.dnsalias.com/wm9enc.html

VC-1 Muxer

http://www.dvbportal.de/

You want to mux VC-1 or WMV, try this.
And more :)

Lecturing about Expression Encoder...

Hi,

again I was selected speaker for MS community on field of digital media.
http://kulendayz.mscommunity.net/

This was level 400 session, short introduction to Expression Encoder and then in depth voyage of VC-1 codec with optimizations techniques.

But :(, actually there aren't many listeners capable of of this level, not that they wouldn't understand, but they just don't need that level of in depth session.

So yes, once again, I had to go higher, higher :).

Microsoft should give me t-shirt of their Evangelist team :), because I spend so much time preaching about benefits of Windows Media, trough last six or seven years I was selected speaker for MS Media technologies :)

Just in case, my size is XL :)

Low lattency WM streaming

http://www.on10.net/blogs/benwagg/Low-Latency-webcasting-with-Windows-Media-and-Siverlight/

Of course, Ben Waggoner is answering to this one.
I would like to add just one little addition, it is possible to acquire even shorter latencies with techniques used in ConferenceXP product.

Source codes and executable of ConferenceXP are available at MS Research web.

We have gained 300ms latencies, using our encoders and players build on top of WMF.

Using all of VC-1 or WM9A codec strength

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/codecadvancedsettings.aspx#CompressionOptimizationType

Very good reference, without marketing mumbo jumbo :)

J.

WM Files Analysis Tool

For encoding params tweeking, general analysis or just being curious, try this tool
WMSnoop.

Excellent free utility for WM streams analysis.

And then, when you see all the details and conclude that utility is nothing special :)
Then click "Snoop Details"

Best by frame analysis I've ever seen.

Cool :)

There are guys who don't like VC-1

http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=10431&page=1&c=4

Excellent :).
Good competition is the best thing for market.

Political Improve :D

Let me quote:
"Beta2 adds improved support for server side playlists on Windows Media Services"...

Excellent, now let me finish the quote :D
"(previous releases only supported client-side playlists)."

It always puts a smile on my face.
But, never the less, new Silverlight beta 2 is out.
And remember, this is Google killer :D

Half a decade...

Great Ben's review of quality improvements of VC-1 compared to WM9.

http://www.on10.net/blogs/benwagg/What-a-difference-a-half-decade-makes-Live-VC-1-today-and-at-launch/

I'm in Top 10 speakers

Hi all,
I have to brag about this :)

Biggest IT conference in Croatia, Microsoft oriented - this year between around 180 speakers I was elected in Top 10 :)

http://www.microsoft.com/croatia/windays/english/top10.mspx

Hehe :)
My guys immediately said that the reason was simple, it was speakers election, not workers :)

My small team training...