Expression Encoder Stuff

Welcome to "Expression Encoder Stuff" This Blog is focused on the Microsoft Expression Encoder, and primarily it's capability to control , create and edit and distribute multimedia content for streaming and archiving.

Managing multicast fragmentation in a typical Windows Media Services (WMS) environment

On occasions you may notice your multicast clients experience unwanted behavior and you note one or...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 04/26/2013

Using multiple Expression Encoder sessions to perform roll-over of smooth streaming publishing points (v4 SP2)

In this scenario , I describe a method that you can use to keep your Silverlight clients connected...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 08/26/2012

Determine the resulting stream when a particular Client, Server or Protocol is in use.

I have created the chart below to help understand which resulting stream will be delivered depending...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 08/23/2012

Microsoft Expression Encoder feedback submission - all versions

If you have feedback to provide to the Microsoft Expression Encoder team please use the following...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 09/27/2011

Using Microsoft Expression Encoder to display characters based on a dfxp (UTF-8) file format - Expression Encoder 4 SP1

The Expression Encoder generated template has the capability to display captions using a different...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 02/27/2011

Using file sources to broadcast a Live Smooth stream from IIS Media Services - Expression Encoder 4 SP1

If your goal is to have clients connect to an in process live broadcast stream , using IIS Smooth...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 02/17/2011

Sample to demonstrate how you could enable auto-naming functionality of the encoder in an Expression Encoder v3 SDK based application

Thanks again to my collegue Mahatab Ur Rashid for his valuable input on creating the sample...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 08/16/2010

Quick Reference charts to indicate the available video modes when choosing an Expression Encoder v4 project and a particular output format

I created this chart to provide a quick reference to the avaliable video modes when you choose a...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 08/16/2010

Sample code to open the associated device configuration dialog prior to starting a live encode session using Expression Encoder v4

The following program illustrates how to build a small Windows Application to perform the following...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 08/11/2010

Sample code to transcode a .wmv into a Smooth Streaming set of files using the smooth streaming default profile settings - Expression Encoder v4

The following sample code demonstrates transcoding a .wmv file to a default set of Smooth streaming...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 07/28/2010

Right out of the box, Microsoft Expression Encoder has some very impressive stock templates that you...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 06/08/2010

How to Auto Start Expression Encoder v4 Sample provided

Several people have wanted to automate this functionality with the Expression Encoder and there is...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 05/10/2010

How to supply Credentials to a Push Publishing Point using Expression Encoder v3 and v4

Well, have you pushed content from Expression Encoder to your server and got the "Access Denied"...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 05/10/2010

Re-labeling Expression Encoder v2 "Live" Source controls

In some instances where you are performing live switching in an encoding session, you may find it...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 12/02/2009

Let's have Fun Encoding and Streaming with Expression Encoder v2

Hi Dale here, I'm presently on the Windows Media support team at Microsoft and I'm quite fortunate...

Author: TrickyDix Date: 04/24/2009