Mitch Wheat - Treat the cause, not the symptoms!

In this presentation we'll look at how you can leverage tools like Microsoft Smooth Streaming, IIS, Silverlight and Expression Encoder to get a simple video player up and running in minutes and start delivering a great online video experience. We'll also look at ways of creating your own fully customised player, including using the Microsoft backed open source project, Silverlight Media Framework (SMF).

Smooth Streaming and SMF use industry best practices and have been used for events such as the NBC 2010 Winter Olympics and the Tour de France on French Télévision. Smooth streaming provides features like near instant video start, very fast seeking and eliminating that irritating "buffering" we see all too often when watching online video.

• TOPIC: Microsoft Smooth streaming - with Ola Karlsson
• DATE: Thursday, Aug 5th, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
• VENUE: Excom, Ground Floor, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
• COST: Free. All welcome

Ola Karlsson works as a full time Silverlight and ASP.Net developer and has been working with Microsoft Smooth Streaming since it was released in early 2009. Ola is an active member of the Australian Silverlight community, having spoken at the at the first Australian Silverlight Code Camp, which was held in Melbourne February 2010 and he is a frequent speaker at the Perth, Silverlight Developer Designer Network (SDDN).

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