Expression Encoder
The team blog for Expression Encoder.
Microsoft Expression News
We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the...
Author: Lori Dirks Date: 12/20/2012
Expression Encoder 4 SP2 released!
A new service pack is now available for Expression Encoder 4, which includes over 300 bug fixes as...
Author: Eric Juteau Date: 11/02/2011
How CPU cycles are used when encoding
Once in a while on our forum, somebody asks why the CPU usage isn't at 100% when offline encoding. I...
Author: Eric Juteau Date: 10/03/2011
Tidbits about Indexing
When importing certain media files like VOB, TS and M2TS files, Expression Encoder needs to parse...
Author: Eric Juteau Date: 07/12/2011
Expression Encoder Wins Most Innovative Product at Business Video Expo
Enterprise video is increasingly being recognized by industry experts, such as Gartner, as an...
Author: eanders4 Date: 03/07/2011
EventID and restarting publishing points using Expression Encoder 4 SP1
In the service pack for Expression Encoder 4, we added the ability to specify an EventID for live...
Author: Jamie Lang Date: 02/02/2011
Expression Encoder 4 SP1 released!
Today we have released a service pack for Expression Encoder 4 that includes some new features and a...
Author: Jamie Lang Date: 01/28/2011
SharePoint 2010 publish plugin released
Hi everyone, we just posted a publish plugin to upload your output directory to the new SharePoint...
Author: Jamie Lang Date: 11/10/2010
Thank you
Thanks to everyone that voted for us in the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards! We are a...
Author: Jamie Lang Date: 10/20/2010
Live IIS Smooth Streaming in Expression Encoder 4
September 2010 Authors: Jamie Lang and Sam Wookey INTRODUCTION Expression Encoder 2 was the first...
Author: Jamie Lang Date: 09/22/2010
New Encoder build available (1651)
We have updated our build on the download center to resolve a couple of issues related to the screen...
Author: Jamie Lang Date: 07/31/2010
Expression Encoder Screen Capture codec now available
We have just release the Expression Encoder Screen Capture codec as a separate download package....
Author: Jamie Lang Date: 07/26/2010
Expression Encoder 4 Pro Now Available for Purchase
Earlier this month we announced the availability of Express Studio 4. At that time we made the free...
Author: Allan Poore [MSFT] Date: 06/24/2010
Maximizing your memory usage of your application based on the Expression Encoder SDK
Fact 1: Currently, our SDK is 32-bit only due to a lot of our dependencies. This brings a few...
Author: Eric Juteau Date: 03/10/2010
Microsoft® Expression® Encoder 3 QFE Released
A QFE has been released for Expression Encoder v3. The download can be found here:...
Author: Allan Poore [MSFT] Date: 11/30/2009
Important News for Users of the Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ Beta
Summary: · Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Beta is being discontinued and will...
Author: clarkezone Date: 10/19/2009
Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 FAQ
An updated version of the FAQ is available on our forum here.
Author: Eric Juteau Date: 10/09/2009
How to get Expression Encoder to work with the latest Apple QuickTime (7.64.17.0 and greater)
In their recent QuickTime update, Apple added a new DLL dependency to their SDK which unfortunately...
Author: Eric Juteau Date: 09/29/2009
A new way to get the full version of Expression Encoder 3
We have just made available a new option that allows users to purchase the full version of...
Author: clarkezone Date: 09/22/2009
Using the XBox360 Preset to Encode HD Content
To allow the encoded files to playback seamlessly in most environments, including when streamed on a...
Author: Eric Juteau Date: 08/26/2009
What’s New in the Expression Encoder 3 SDK?
When Encoder 3 is installed we now install the API help file, intellisense files and the sample...
Author: Dean Rowe Date: 07/30/2009
Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 is available for download
We are very pleased to announce that both Expression Studio 3 trial and Expression Encoder 3 ...
Author: clarkezone Date: 07/22/2009
What’s new in Expression Encoder 3
We on the Expression Encoder team are proud to announce that Expression Encoder 3 is complete and...
Author: clarkezone Date: 07/10/2009
IIS Smooth Streaming server component beta released
Back in October, we announced a new Microsoft video delivery technology called IIS Smooth...
Author: clarkezone Date: 02/28/2009
New Silverlight Streaming Publishing plugin for Expression Encoder: Silverlight 2 support
We just released an update to the Silverlight Streaming publishing plugin to support the Silverlight...
Author: clarkezone Date: 01/15/2009
Expression Encoder 2 SDK Updated for Service Pack 1
We’ve just released an update to the SDK, which now incorporates the new features in Expression...
Author: Dean Rowe Date: 11/13/2008
Expression Encoder 2 SP1 is released
SP1 has just gone live here:...
Author: clarkezone Date: 10/30/2008
Announcing Expression Encoder 2 SP1
Since the release of Expression Encoder 2 back in May of this year, we’ve been hard at work on new...
Author: clarkezone Date: 09/23/2008
Silverlight and Expression Encoder to support H.264
In case you missed this press release, we just announced that H.264 support is coming to both...
Author: clarkezone Date: 09/11/2008
Expression Encoder 2 VB.NET update
We've just released an update to Expression Encoder 2 that allows VB.NET developers to build...
Author: clarkezone Date: 07/25/2008
Creating XAML overlays for Microsoft Expression Encoder
A XAML overlay is a vector-based graphic that is rendered into the users video like a lower third, a...
Author: brandon_riffe Date: 07/01/2008
Expression Encoder Customer Panel
Now that Expression Encoder 2 has been released, the team is hard at work on the next version of the...
Author: clarkezone Date: 06/21/2008
Silverlight Streaming Publishing Plugin for Expression Encoder 2 is out!
I'm pleased to announced that we just pushed a preview of the SLS publishing plugin for Expression...
Author: clarkezone Date: 06/14/2008
AVCHD support in Expression Encoder 2
AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) is a file format commonly used by the latest generation...
Author: Eric Juteau Date: 06/10/2008
Expression Encoder 2 SDK Released
Last week we released the Expression Encoder 2 SDK. Here's a little video of Charles and I, giving a...
Author: Dean Rowe Date: 06/10/2008
Getting started with the Expression Encoder Object Model (RTM Version)
This post is an update to the previous Getting started with the Expression Encoder Object Model...
Author: Dean Rowe Date: 05/09/2008
Help and Intellisense for the Expression Encoder Object Model.
We're busy working on a more official SDK and some samples that use the Expression Encoder object...
Author: Dean Rowe Date: 05/02/2008
Getting started with the Expression Encoder Object Model
(UPDATE: This post was written against the Beta of Expression Encoder v2. Now that the RTM version...
Author: Dean Rowe Date: 04/23/2008
Tutorial on encoding screen recordings for Silverlight using Expression Encoder 2
Ben Waggoner just did a great blog post that shows you how to encode screen recordings for display...
Author: clarkezone Date: 03/27/2008
Expression Encoder 2 MIX sessions
Here are some of the sessions at MIX08 that highlighted or included Expression Encoder:...
Author: clarkezone Date: 03/25/2008
T09 at MIX is done
Charles and I presented our Session at MIX08 on Expression Encoder 2 this morning. It went...
Author: clarkezone Date: 03/07/2008
Announcing Expression Encoder 2
Helloooo from Mix 08.. we can finally talk about what the Expression Encoder team have been up to...
Author: clarkezone Date: 03/05/2008
Hello from Mix 08
Charles and I have arrived here at The Venetian ready for Mix08. Our session is currently...
Author: clarkezone Date: 03/05/2008
Video: Hello World
Welcome to the new Expression Encoder team blog! As Charles says in the video, we plan on posting a...
Author: kirupa Date: 02/28/2008