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Mix 08 Day 2 - Media with Silverlight

In Silverlight Media is first class citizen. In Silverlight 1, you needed to use Javascript in browser as the programming model, now in Silverlight 2 there is managed code as an additional programming model.

Silverlight 2 supports WMV 10 Pro Audio Codec
IIS 7 Media Pack allows bit rate throttle to save cost and also supports Web Playlists (so user cannot ask for the 4th file without watching 3,2,1) in ASX format
Combining with markers from Expression Encoder we can set up markers. So that the first few seconds of video gets downloaded at full speed, then it only leads by few seconds as configured.
Playready for Silverlight 2 is a client and server side components. There is a client side additional downloaded that is needed
Silverlight 2 supports only online DRM protected content, meaning everytime there is a DRM protected content then it goes online to License Server.