

Silverlight includes robust auto-update features, so support for additional codecs is certainly possible in the future.
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Windows Media Video 10 (progressive only).Silverlight contains its own implementation of the codecs inside itself, and so doesn't have any dependency on WMP or other OS features, so you'll get an identical experience wherever Silverlight is installed. And the current CDN ecosystem for hosting and streaming all works, using Windows Media Services as shipping. Silverlight uses Windows Media for its digital media, so a huge library of compatible content is immediately available. The next generation web plugin for digital media is now a released 1.0, so non-early adopters can start installing it and content creators and developers can start authoring to it. I'll be focusing on Silverlight and its scenarios on the blog for the rest of this month.Īll drop by the Microsoft booth at IBC if you'd like to say hello and see some demos of both our new codec technologies and Silverlight. There are four big things relevant to digital media I want to highlight before I hop on the plane for IBC.

Scott Guthrie's Blog has got the best detailed summary of the ton of stuff that got announced today. It's been a long road, but today was the big day for Silverlight to hit the world.
