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Will Microsoft update Silverlight Streaming and improve format transcoding?

April 26, 2017format Microsoft Silverlight streaming transcoding

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Will Microsoft update Silverlight Streaming and improve format transcoding?

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Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live is the companion service to Silverlight. We are increasing the free hosting and storage limit to 10 GB and can now stream HD content at 1400Kbps (see a sample here). During the alpha of the service, most scenarios were video/audio. Now Microsoft is making it easier for content producers to get their media in front of their users, They have now introduced a video management scenario which allows media to be uploaded in many formats (Flash, DIVX, MPEG-4, QuickTime, H.264, H.263, WMV1, WMV2, MPEG-1, MPEG-2) and be transcoded into a Silverlight™ compatible WMV/VC-1 format. For developers, there is a new WebDAV API for Silverlight Streaming which allows for file by file management and Web Folders support. What Browsers are currently supported by Silverlight 2 For browsers, Silverlight will support all current versions of IE, FireFox, Safari, (and others if you lobby Microsoft).