Streaming Media East - Conference

By - May 15, 2005

Streaming Media.jpgSVW's Damien Stolarz is delivering an all-day Windows Media tutorial on May 16 in New York at Streaming Media East (http://www.streamingmedia.com/east/workshops.asp).

Here's the topic:

Microsoft's Windows Media is possibly the most complete streaming media toolset available today. Windows Media provides interoperability across a wide variety of devices, which is essential when the streaming landscape encompasses PCs, handhelds, mobile phones, and high-definition TVs. Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies are gradually gaining trust with the major movie studios, and the next-generation DVDs are all slated to support Microsoft's video codecs. This workshop begins with a panoramic view of the Windows Media tools, and then zooms in on how to do specific tasks such as multi-bitrate encoding, server setup and capacity planning, Web casting, and using the digital rights management tools. The workshop will be packed with lots of practical tips and techniques to satisfy a wide range of audience skill levels.


On my flight out I was speaking to someone on the airplane, and they asked what i was going to be lecturing on. I said "streaming media" and they said "what's streaming". But when I said "video on the Internet" it was much clearer. I had always suspected that "streaming" was a weak word, and indeed, not only does it fail to conjure up anything for the uninitiated, even the experts argue on what it means (i.e. is a partially downloaded file that you preview immediately "streaming"? or is it "download"?)


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