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AUReMIX07 Silverlight Video
By Nick Hodge | May 14, 2007
Watch the video here of Frank Arrigo and Monique Eagles here. Yes, you will need to install Silverlight.
This is my first experiment with Silverlight and the Microsoft Expression set of tools. Using the inbuilt players in Media Encoder saved many days/hours of hand coding; yet I am sure there is more in there that will tickle out over coming weeks.
NOTE: Silverlight 1.1 is alpha-release!
Workflow (all on Vista Ultimate):
- Edited footage in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
- Export Sequence from Premiere Pro using Adobe Media Encoder 960x720 WMV9/WMA9, very light compression.
- Import into Microsoft Expression Media Encoder (May preview)
- Export footage as VC-1 Web Server High Speed (using a normal web server). This setting is 640x480. Obviously, I could compress this more.
- Edit the Default.html to correctly reference EmePlayer.js (note: this got me for an hour. Linux web servers are case-sensitive, and the Default.html points to emeplayer.js. 404! Bug reported)
- FTP files to directory onto nickhodge.com (could have used Expression Web, but I was debugging the problem with upper/lower case file naming above)
Thoughts? Comments? I only have Silverlight 1.1 alpha installed. I've tested in Windows IE/FireFox and MacOS X 10.4 Safari/Firefox. The Mac's audio might be out-of-sync. Again, this is reported.
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Topics: adobe, auremix07, linux, microsoft, silverlight, technology, xaml |
May 14th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
The speed is impressive. The response from clicking play likewise. And a large screen size as well. Is all that thanks to VC-1?
Dave
May 14th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Dave
firstly, thanks for watching
VC-1 encoding and the speedy code on decode. Not bad for alpha code.
Can you tell me the browser/platform? Ta
May 15th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Installed the Silverlight beta and gave it a whirl. Nothing. Tried again and the same. Then I had a brainwave that "this is MS tech" and thought I should therefore try in MSIE 6.0 (on my PC) instead of Firefox 2.
Video started disturbingly quickly. Flushed my cache and verified the speed with a second viewing. Quite impressive!
Screen size was on max area and motion interlacing in the video was visible. I downsized the MSIE window and it was much better / resolved. Hard to know how to set the video to 100% size for an exact match for pixels on playback.
Video content was otherwise smooth. Did you have this at the full 25fps?
Look forward to it being able to run on Firefox.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:49 am
@Andrew Smith: This should definitely be working on Firefox - in fact, it should work on Firefox or Safari on Mac as well. I have seen it working on Firefox (not Nick's specific video, but other Silverlight videos).
@Nick: looking swish - although had a chuckle that you are hosting it on a linux server even though the cross-platform support for Silverlight is Win/Mac.
May 15th, 2007 at 7:43 am
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May 15th, 2007 at 8:47 am
@Andrew Smith
- yes, I noticed the interframe interlacing. going to work on this over the next few days
- video should work in FF2
- the UI of the player is simple, with not all the niceties of 100%/200% size etc. Going to experiment with different players now I know the EmePlayer/emeplayer case bug in the May release
- Video kept at 25 fps all the way through.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:48 am
@AndrewParsons: never really thought through the irony. Now you explain it, you're right. This is a whole different Microsoft!
May 15th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Interesting side note: bug in filename uppercase/lowercase noted and fixed. Video Mac performance noted by the engineers, too.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:24 am
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May 15th, 2007 at 9:42 am
. . . ohh, "and we're gonna remix it"
May 15th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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May 15th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Hi all. Video now playing in FF2 here. Perhaps it just required a restart of the browser?
Again, most incredibly impressive and will possibly give flash video a fun for its money. .... and this is coming from someone who isn't terribly biased towards Microsoft.
May 19th, 2007 at 3:32 am
What are the two buttons ( ">|" and "|
May 24th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Phillip
These buttons are the next/previous chapter buttons. As I haven't defined chapters, they go nowhere.
Note this template is from Expression Media Encoder, not self-written... so finding out was a matter of digging through the XAML of the player.xaml
Nick