PRN, Walmart and HDTV

Press release from our cousins over at PRN regarding the HDTV support within the Walmart network which talks about a HDTV remote management system.



Economist makes some observations about why out of home media networks succeed and points to the PRN / Walmart partnership as an example of a winning combination.

Windows and Video Codecs

Used this to some extent recently and its always an annoying problem - which codecs do i need to play the media (specifically video) I have or recieve

This helps

http://www.jockersoft.com/english/codecinstaller_download.php

MS Silverlight and learning

Have not had a chance to review these tutorials as yet but they looked polished - not sure if they have been building this content up for a while but there seems to be plenty there to get over the initial learning curve.

http://silverlight.net/Learn/learnvideos.aspx

Looking at Netflix online film last night and it looks like they rolled out the fullscreen version of the Silverlight player - whatever it was it played the video immed. and great quality too.

MIX07
we have been workign our way slowly through this content from the Mix07 sessions from a few weeks/months back now - also good intros to all the WPF releases in real business context.

Sessions at Mix07

FFMpeg

The FFMpeg video audio converter project has a tutorial posted here if your interested in learning more about it.

FFMpeg Overview