![]() ![]() Now, naturally it’s got the usual controls on it like Play/Pause/Stop and it’s got a volume control and a draggable thumb and so on but it also has a few more “interesting” things in there… There’s no encoding to do so my player pops out straight away Then I might want to add some Metadata of which there are a tonne of slots that I could fill in Īnd I might want to add some captions ( I’ll do this only to the first video ) so I can just drag the play head around on the video and add captions to it Īnd some markers ( independent of captions ) Īnd then pop to the Output tab to pick a thumbnail for each video Īnd then I can just pick one of the many templated options ( or if I was feeling ambitious I could design my own ) Īnd hit the Encode button. I’m happy enough to leave them as they are ( a WMV 9 encoding ) so I can just select them both and right mouse to ensure that they stick with the encoding that they came with Now, I don’t want to transcode the videos. I actually brought in the same video twice to simulate the idea of having 2 videos to play ![]() Then I can use the Import button to bring in my video or drag-drop it. If I’m just trying to produce a Silverlight player, I can go straight through to ![]() It's also available as a free upgrade from Encoder v3 with IIS Smooth Streaming (see below).Įncoder 4 has that new start screen which is a “What are you trying to do?” screen. Expression Encoder 4 Pro: includes all features from above, plus all licensed decoders and H.264/AAC encoding.This is typically available via some Spark SKUs and MSDN. Expression Encoder 4 Pro without Codecs: includes all features from the base SKU, plus DRM, Live SmoothStreaming and unlimited screen capture (the free version is limited to 10 minutes).Expression Encoder 4: the base SKU (free).For a good explanation of the differences between versions, go here with the crucial text being I have the Pro version but you should be able to do this in the free version or the “Pro without Codecs” version that comes with MSDN. I took the “wildlife” video which ships in Windows 7 as a sample video Another “leg up” is available in the form of the Silverlight Media Framework. Note – you don’t have to use a tool like Expression Encoder to play a video in Silverlight, you can very easily just use MediaElement but Encoder gives you templates for fully fledged players that are already built so it’s a “leg up”. I knew the templates were there as they have been for quite a long time but I hadn’t realised how much capability they’d grown but the other day I had cause to look at them again and there’s some impressive stuff in there so I thought I’d share. I rarely leave the videos on my own site any more as I guess the experience is going to be pretty poor – it wasn’t set up for people downloading or trying to stream videos from it.īecause of that, I’d got a bit out of touch with the templates that Expression Encoder 4 has for making a Silverlight based video player from a video ( whether you need to first transcode that video or not ). If they’re going on the Channel 9 site then I leave them in H.264 and upload them to the site where they appear in a standard Silverlight-based player that runs on the site.īeyond that, I’ve been using Vimeo which takes the H.264 and offers it back in a Flash-based player. I tend to use it in order to capture screencasts and then I transcode them to some other format (e.g. I use Expression Encoder 4 Pro quite a lot as I’ve put together a number of screen capture videos. ![]()
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