The Mindjet Labs

I just viewed this over a busy hotel wireless connection and I'm amazed: http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21587/ I still have so much to learn from Ben!  He's hosting the video on our free Silverlight Streaming Services and encoding with the new Expression...(read more)

If anyone went to the Google home page today (I'm sure there were a few) they would have found the Google banner commemorating 50 years of the LEGO block. LEGO blocks were my favorite toy as a child; I spent hours building, rebuilding, designing, creating,...(read more)

A recording of today's webinar on creating a Windows Workflow activity for Expression Encoder has just been posted. You can find it along with other recordings of past webinars here . If you like the look of this Workflow, it's because I created a Custom...(read more)

My colleague Tim Heuer, posted a great example of how you might extent Expression Encoder to encode and upload content to a Content Delivery Networks (CDN). If you've used the Expression Encoder add-in for Silverlight Streaming , you've seen an example...(read more)

If you were able to attend the Q&A session with Microsoft resident encoding expert Ben Waggoner , you would have seen 31 attendees peppering Ben with questions for just over an hour. If you missed it, you can view a recording here . Recordings of...(read more)

I just added an animated ''Press Play'' graphic to the Silverlight Media Player created with Expression Encoder. I created the graphic (with animation) as a separate XAML file so it can be easily reused. To see it in action, see this blog post . Feel free...(read more)

As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video Camera ( JVC GZ-HD7U ). I have been trying various encoding formats in Expression Encoder to get a good balance of bit-rate and quality. Here is my workflow:...(read more)