8 January 2011 0 Comments

Multi-language audio with IIS Smooth Streaming: An example from Radiovaticana Live Streaming

One of many useful features that comes with IIS Media Services 4.0 and Smooth Streaming is the ability to stream live and on-demand content with multiple language audio tracks that are selectable by the viewer.  An example of this capability is the recent schedule of events that Vatican Radio ( http://www.radiovaticana.org/ ) delivered  during the last month.

26 August 2009 0 Comments

Tech-Ed Japan Smooth Streamed

Tech-Ed Japan 2009 has embraced Smooth Streaming. You can watch the keynote (in Japanese) for a few more days here

23 July 2009 0 Comments

Apple Releases New Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio

Today, Apple released a huge update for its Pro series of audio/video editing applications, including both the Final Cut and Logic Studio suites of applications.

21 July 2009 0 Comments

Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 25 Windows Media Center

  Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ① Windows 7의 세계로!!!    Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ② Windows 7의 사용자 경험 세계로!!!    Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ③ Internet Explorer 8 – 1편 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ④ Internet Explorer 8 – 2편 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑤ Libraries Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑥ HOMEGROUP Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑦ BITLOCKER Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑧ Federated Search Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑨ UAC (User Account Control) Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑩ Multi-Touch Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑪ 가족보호 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑫ 주변기기 관리하기 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑬ Windows Live Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑭ 국가별 테마 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – ⑮ Windows Virtual PC (XP Mode – XPM) Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 16 컴퓨터 사용의 장벽을 없애는 내게 필요한 옵션 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 17 향상된 전원 관리 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 18 원격 미디어 스트리밍 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 19 부팅속도 12초! 가벼워진 Windows7 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 20 USB를 이용하여 Windows 7을 설치해봅시다! Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 21 원격 재생 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 22 관리 센터 Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 23 windows readyboost Winkey와 꼬알라의 Windows 7 만담 – 24 왜 Windows 7이 Windows 7이라는 이름을 가졌을까?

14 July 2009 0 Comments

W kraju tulipanów

  Martin Tirion , kolega z Holandii podzielił się ostatnio imponującą wiadomością: wszystkie lokalne media telewizyjne (publiczne i prywatne) wykorzystują Silverlight jako mechanizm dystrybucji wideo. Podstawowym, choć nie jedynym zastosowaniem pozostają transmisje imprez sportowych: Tour de France, Wimbledon, oczywiście ostatnia olimpiada w Pekinie i mistrzostwa Euro. Szkoda tylko, że nie można sprawdzić tego na własnej skórze, bo tradycyjnie już natkniemy się na blokadę regionalną

14 July 2009 0 Comments

IL Stub Diagnostic Tool在CodePlex上发布了!

该工具主要帮助大家诊断Interop Marshalling中间遇到的问题。它的源代码和二进制文件可以在CodePlex上下载: http://clrinterop.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=29745 本文首先介绍关于Interop Marshalling的背景,然后通过一个例子来介绍IL Stub Diagnostic工具的使用。 Interop Marshalling: 当我们在托管代码中调用本地代码或者反过来在本地代码中调用托管代码的时候,我们就在做.Net Interop,如下图所示。当我们在托管代码和本地代码之间传递数据的时候,我们就需要Marshalling。长久以来,Marshalling一直是错误的温床。程序员需要通过设置一些列的属性来告诉CLR他们期待的marshalling逻辑,由于看不到CLR生成的具体代码(当然,在调试器里面可以看到汇编代码),所以和Marshalling相关的错误总是难于诊断。我们这次在codeplex上发布的工具就力图解决这个问题。 Intermediate Language(IL) Stub 是由CLR动态生成的用于Interop的代码。它主要做两件事情:1. 在本地代码和托管代码之间Marshal数据;2.

29 May 2009 0 Comments

Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio 2010

This week, I’m highlighting the Visual Studio help topic: Walkthrough: Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio .  This topic gives a great introduction to some of the features and syntax of F#.  I’ve also created a video that takes you through some of the basics. I show you how to declare simple variables, to write and test functions, to create tuples and lists.     — Kathleen

27 May 2009 0 Comments

Microsoft Announces Zune HD: So What?

Your first question might be, “Isn’t Zune dead already?” Or you might be wondering, “Why does Microsoft bother ?” You might even be asking why there’s a report about Zune on TheAppleBlog. Well, first the news.

15 May 2009 0 Comments

Move Forward Internet video streaming: IIS7 Media Service and Smooth Streaming

Delivering video content through Internet is one of the hottest technical topics. The increase of bandwidth and connectivity in combination with the numbers from the last big video event delivered like Olympics, demonstrate the potential of Internet channel for this type of content

8 May 2009 0 Comments

Facebook for Windows Mobile – free download

I’ve been playing with this for a while and it’s pretty cool – and not it’s freely available to anyone with a Windows Mobile 6 phone Check out a great review at mobilityminded   CAB file download

5 May 2009 0 Comments

Multimedia-TechTalk Zwischenstand

Die ersten beiden TechTalks in Hamburg und Karlsruhe sind vorbei und es waren bei beiden Veranstaltungen am Ende sehr interessante Gespräche entstanden. Das Ursprüngliche Programm – und ich muss zugeben, dass Hamburg noch etwas holprig war – hatte sich ausschließlich auf WinForms beschränkt

5 May 2009 0 Comments

SQL Data Warehousing Tips 1 – Building a Period table

Recently, I started a personal project for analyzing stock market trends and calculating the optimal trading strategies.  I’ve learned a lot of new stuff about LINQ and SQL 2008 from this.  Based on that I’m opening a new series on data warehouse tips.  In my project, one of the things I quickly realized after calculating that I would need to generate about 1 billion rows in order to have sufficient detail for analysis of 5,000 publicly traded stocks with 1 year of history was that I needed to consolidate the data.  It was obvious I needed a way to summarize data into periods and use those as dimensions for analyzing the performance, rather than calculating all of this from the detailed data.  What would be nice, would be to have periods that could overlap and align.  For example, I want to be able to go back and look at last month, last quarter, last 6 months, and last year.  However each one of these requires a different set of transactions because even though the closing date is the same, the opening date is different.  The variation in open date affects the price at which a stock would be purchased at (or short-sold at), thus leading to a different set of transactions based on an entry/exit strategy.  In order to focus on the technical aspect of this, I won’t get into all of the application design considerations.  Suffice to say, that discrete, yet aligned periods were needed.