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Sampy explains how we built the Silverlight player for Channel 8
Wednesday, September 26, 2007In an interview with Adam Kinney on Channel 9 today, Sampy goes over how the player works and why using the JavaScript and templates from Expression Media Encoder saved us a bunch of hassle See this video on Channel 9! [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
We added a Silverlight player to Channel 8 today
Friday, September 14, 2007We used a modified version of one of the templates that ships with Expression Media Encoder as our player... and channel 8 has become the first of our sites (which include Channel 9, Channel 10, VisitMix.com and more) to have a Silverlight video player on them. And, below here, you can see that player embedded into this blog post... Note that I had to remove the 'scrubbing bar' due to some odd bug around releasing the mouse after scrubbing was completed... but we'll figure that out and get it back in as soon as we can. Check out the video above back in its [read more...]Filed under | 5 comments »Share this -
Tracking RSS Feed Statistics
Tuesday, September 04, 2007A few of my friends and co-workers have jumped on the FeedBurner bandwagon, and I've been pretty impressed with the stats they've been gathering. I'm not willing to send my readers off to someone else's service though (even though there are some reasonably safe ways to do that), so I started to think about how best to gather similar info myself. One idea would be to ship the IIS logs from my site back to my PC on a regular basis and run them through a LogParser script that would figure out all the stats for me... but that seems [read more...]Share this -
Added Silverlight Streaming support to Channel 9's forums
Monday, September 03, 2007Continuing on in the same pattern as my last post, adding Soapbox support to C9's forums, Adam Kinney bugged me a bit and I went ahead and added support for Silverlight Streaming as well. It will be interesting to see if (or more accurately, how long before) someone turns this to malicious purposes. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this
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