Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1 Features
Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1 contains enhancements in several areas as well
as bug fixes. For complete information on the changes, please refer to the
release notes.
Encoding Enhancements
H.264 Encoding for Devices
New in Service Pack 1 is our support for H.264/AAC encoding. In addition to VC-1
profiles, we have introduced two new encoding profiles aimed at creating podcasts
for media devices.
IIS Smooth Streaming
Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1 includes encoding support and Silverlight media
player support for Smooth Streaming. Smooth Streaming is a new extension for Microsoft
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, which enables adaptive streaming of media
to Silverlight clients via HTTP.
Using Expression Encoder, you can encode several quality levels of a specific piece
of content, choose to add Smooth Streaming specific code to one of Expression Encoder’s
Silverlight templates and publish all of the media content and the Silverlight player
directly to a Smooth Streaming-enabled IIS server without having to write any code
on the client or server.
For more information on IIS Smooth Streaming, please visit
www.smoothhd.com
Processing Enhancements
A/B Compare Enhancements
Service Pack 1 introduces two new visual comparison modes to better discern differences
between original and encoded videos:
Bands mode enable you to visually differentiate multiple segments
of the video frame.
Difference mode shows luminance map differences to help distinguish
quality loss.
Audio Overlay
You now have the ability to add an audio overlay track. An audio overlay is an audio
file that is played over or instead of the video audio file. You can adjust the
volume, duration and fade in/out parameters to get the desired result. Audio overlays
can also be used to combine separate video and audio source files into a combined
audio/video output.
Production and Publishing
Silverlight 2 Player Templates
Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1 adds six new player templates that provide a
quick and easy way to create Silverlight 2 video experiences. These new templates
take advantage of rich new functionality in Silverlight 2, and share a new core
media playback custom control. It is completely skinnable in Expression Blend and
supports Silverlight 2 controls, Visual State Manager, adaptive layout, playlist
support and byte-range seeking for an enhanced playhead seeking experience.
WebDAV Publishing
Service Pack 1 includes a WebDAV publishing plug-in that allows you to publish directly
to a remote server that supports the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol
(WebDAV). The WebDAV publishing plug-in works with any WebDAV-enabled server including
Windows Server 2003 or 2008 running Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 or 7.0.
