Microsoft Expression Encoder
Microsoft Expression Encoder (formerly Expression Media Encoder) is a Windows - based program and is used to create and edit multimedia content. The compression are the industry standard VC -1 and H.264 basis, codecs, which are also among the standards for Blu -ray and HD DVD format and ideally applications can be used in Microsoft Silverlight.
Videos can be converted in AVI, MPEG, WMV or QuickTime format in a few steps to a compatible format for Silverlight in order to publish it on the internet. Moreover, WMA and WMV content can be created, for example, play on portable media players.
The control of Microsoft Expression Encoder is running either a modern user interface or via command line. With Expression Encoder, the tools and templates are provided that are necessary to prepare multimedia content for publishing on the web. In order to work with Expression Encoder, you need the. NET Framework 3.0. Version 1.0 was released on 6 September 2007. A beta version of Expression Encoder 2.0 was released in March 2008, which included a new VC -1 codec and improved Silverlight support.
Expression Encoder is the replacement part to becoming unfashionable Windows Media Encoder. Since October 1, Expression Encoder 3 is available as part of Expression Web 3 and Expression Studio 3 in German. The free version of Expression Encoder 4 was released on July 19, 2010 by Microsoft as a download. This version does not support IIS Live Smooth Streaming and no H.264 encoding (only available in the paid Pro version ).
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Service Pack 1 for Expression Encoder 2
To make fit for Expression Encoder 2 Silverlight 2.0, a first service pack for the expression of the family program was published. With Expression Encoder 2 can inter alia be Import video files and encode, produce live webcasts, and publish media with Silverlight. The approximately 10 megabyte service pack allows the creation of Silverlight 2 applications and also adds support for H.264/AAC-Videos.
SDK for Expression Encoder 2
Download Center Microsoft Software Development Kit for Expression Encoder 2 is available. The SDK contains, among other IntelliSense for Expression Encoder 2, a SDK documentation including API reference and code examples. In the Expression team blog is a short video introduction takes place in the SDK.