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MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do With Silverlight 2 (Part 6 of 6): Adaptive Streaming (Level 200)

Overview This webcast highlights adaptive streaming, which is an addition to the rich media capabilities of Silverlight 2. Adaptive streaming enables Silverlight 2 applications to examine the capabilities of the client computer, like CPU and bandwidth, and adjusts the bit-rate encoding of streaming video to handle network congestion and CPU usage automatically. It demonstrates how to implement adaptive streaming in Silverlight 2 applications, and it wrap up with a brief look at some other cool features of Silverlight 2 and a glimpse of Silverlight Mobile.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft
Live Date	27th June 2008 00:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Graphics Applications

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