Unfortunately, Microsoft seems to have gone to extra lenghts to make the Windows Live suite of software go away, without anyone thinking that there were people who were using them and without offering file/project-level compatible replacements for user-friendly tools like Windows Live Movie Maker. Only Windows Live Writer was at some point ...

I’ve been puzzled for some days now with the IIS Transform Manager installation we have at ClipFlair for automating the conversion of media files (for example using Microsoft Expression Encoder) into IIS Smooth Streams. The watch folder I’ve set up for this task was ignoring some of the media files I was dropping in for no [...]

Opensource movies made with Blender (http://www.blender.org) http://orange.blender.org/download http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ http://www.sintel.org/download http://mango.blender.org/download/ At the download page for some of them you can also find subtitle files. Also at list of featured Blender movies ...

One of the main goals of the ClipFlair project is to explore the use of Video Captioning (together with Revoicing) for Foreign Language Learning (FLL). There both are important enhancements compared to the simpler two-line subtitling that was put in use in its ancestor project LeViS. Captioning means that multi-row text is needed while text [...]

Since our onoing project ClipFlair is a follow-up of the succesful project LeViS, during its development I’m also looking at covering possible use-cases I infer from feedback entries at LvS application issue tracker on Codeplex (note that ClipFlair is also opensourced on Codeplex at http://ClipFlair.codeplex.com). One such issue ...

Here are some Smooth Streaming URLs I found on the Internet that you could use during development to test your smooth streaming players (like those based on SMF):   http://streams.smooth.vertigo.com/BigBuckBunny_30sec/bigbuck.ism/manifest http://video3.smoothhd.com.edgesuite.net/ondemand/Big%20Buck%20Bunny%20Adaptive.ism/Manifest   ...