At PDC last week, Microsoft User Experience Platform Manager Brian Goldfarb demonstrated H.264 video streaming wirelessly using Microsoft’s Silverlight video streaming to an Apple iPhone. It seems odd but Microsoft is working with Apple to bring Silverlight on iPhone. This could be a big win for Microsoft and Silverlight developers because having the ability to get content to mobile phone users is extremely important. Although Silverlight has uses far beyond video such as developing a desktop client, developing a game or integrating with Facebook etc but it does streaming video extremely well. Do check out the launch of Silverlight 4 which was demoed by Scott Guthrie at PDC.
“The promise of Silverlight is that it’s a cross-device, cross-browser, cross-platform solution, and it works the same on Macs as it does on Windows. The iPhone is a unique scenario. We talked to our customers and they said, ‘Look, we just need to get our content there, and it’s mainly in the media space like broadcasting, and we want to put it on the iPhone.’ They have a great solution for that; if you’re surfing the Web, and hit YouTube and hit ‘Play,’ it’ll play your video because they’ve created an environment where they can safely play media, and they’re comfortable with that, So we’ve worked with Apple to create a server-side based solution with IIS Media Services, and what we’re doing is taking content that’s encoded for smooth streaming and enabling the content owner to say, ‘I want to enable the iPhone.’ The server will dynamically make the content work – same content, same point of origin – on the iPhone. We do this with the HTML 5 tag, in many ways.” Brian Goldfarb – Microsoft User Experience Platform Manager
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