Verifying that all the data migration worked..
Interested and, I have to admit, somewhat surprised to see that the Expression Encoder 3 announcement blog post was the fifth most popular post on the Silverlight Team blog in 2009
*Grin* So video encoding is Cool and not just for nerds, right?
David has done a great series of blog posts taking you from no Azure account to video embedded on your blog:
- Provisioning Windows Azure – how to sign up for and set up a Windows Azure subscription.
- Setting up Windows Azure for video storage – how to create a storage account.
- Creating and publishing a Silverlight video to Windows Azure – how to use Expression Encoder to encode and publish a video to Windows Azure.
- Embedding a Silverlight video in a blog – how to use Windows Live Writer to embed a Silverlight video hosted on Windows Azure in your blog.
Good job, Sir!
This is quite an interesting Windows Hack.. GodMode is an uber settings view that aggregates configuration settings into a single pane.
Create a new folder and rename it to:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
and you’ll then see an icon like this:
which launches a view like this:
basically a searchable list of configuration options similar to what you would get if you searched the start menu.
[Source: http://www.ithinkdiff.com/enable-the-secret-godmode-in-windows-7]
One cool feature that this enables is the ability to a create shortcut to a particular setting (by right-clicking on the desired setting) that can subsequently be bound to the keyboard.. so if, for example, you want to have speedy access to your network adapters, open GodMode and search for the keyword adapters. In the search results right-click on view network connections and make a shortcut. Then, drag the shortcut into the start menu and assign a keyboard shortcut by right clicking and selecting properties on the shortcut
and typing the key combination you want:
Now, whenever you press ctrl-shift F1 you’ll get your network connections:
As an aside it seems that GodMode shares the same search bug as the start menu in that if you type adapters, it finds the required View network connections accelerator:
where as if you type connections, it doesn’t find it.
Oops.
Anyhow, enjoy your keyboard accelerated acts of God.
I just pushed an update to the plugin to Codeplex with the following features:
- Support for updated Azure Blob Storage Library from November 09 Azure SDK enabling
- Upload progress is reported
- Very large files can be uploaded since a chunk-based upload scheme is used. Chunks are validated with an MD5 hash.
- Uploads can be restarted in the case where a failure occurs or if an upload was previously cancelled
- Standard settings enhancements
- Preview from origin server or using CDN
- Display of code snippet for inserting published video project into web page
- Advanced settings
- Preview and delete published projects
The updated plugin now offers equivalent functionality to the (now deprecated) Silverlight Streaming Publishing plugin.
To install, unzip the archive and drop the two dlls into
%programfilesx86%\Microsoft Expression\Encoder 3\Plugins.
The plugin is also fully supported by the Expression Encoder Powershell cmdlet as I’ll illustrate in my next post that describes my personal process for migrating existing Silverlight Streaming video projects to Windows Azure Blob Storage.
Hope this Helps.