Related link: http://www.streamingmedia.com/east/program/session.asp?id=729
I’m delivering an all-day tutorial on the first day of the Streaming Media East Conference (Monday, May 16, 2005) and I’ll be covering Windows Media streaming in depth. Like O’Reilly conferences, the Streaming Media conferences have a very high signal to noise ratio (i.e. few vendor pitches, only actual do-ers are there). It’s actually a very interesting time with MPEG-4, Windows Media, and the evolution of High Def DVD and media standards(*), so if you’re interested at all in net video I recommend it.
* (For the record, I actually don’t think standards are as important anymore because dvd players are pretty much general-purpose computers and can download any “new” codec that comes along – it’s more a matter of licensing, and the vendors are often actually happier to be able to sell bits after the fact (and have longer to optimize them) then to have to burn them into silicon before they’re fully baked.
If you missed my earlier blog on the “death” of MPEG-4 and rise of Windows Media, check it out. )
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