This enables you to use a streaming server like Windows Media Server on the backend to efficiently stream video/audio (note: Windows Media Server is a free product that runs on Windows Server).
Silverlight also optionally supports built-in media streaming. We'll also be releasing an IIS 7.0 media pack that enables rich bandwidth throttling features that you can enable on your web-server for free. No special server software is required, and Silverlight can work with any web-server (including Apache on Linux). You can point Silverlight at any URL containing video/audio media content, and it will download it and enable you to play it within the browser. Silverlight supports the ability to progressively download and play media content from any web-server. It enables you to use a huge library of existing video content and provides access to the broad ecosystem of existing Windows Media tools, components, vendors and hardware. It is a standards-based media format that is implemented in all HD-DVD and Blueray DVD players, and is supported by hundreds of millions of mobile devices, XBOX 360s, PlayStation 3s, and Windows Media Centers (enabling you to encode content once and run it on all of these devices + Silverlight unmodified). The VC-1 codec is a big step forward for incorporating media within a web experience - since it supports very efficiently playing high-quality, high definition video in the browser. Built-in codec support for playing VC-1 and WMV video, and MP3 and WMA audio within a browser. Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser. 
Hieronder zijn de release notes te lezen: Today we shipped the Silverlight 1.0 release for Mac and Windows. Meer informatie over deze release kan gevonden worden in dit nieuwsbericht. Hiermee is het mogelijk om Silverlight-content te publiceren. Naast Silverlight 1.0 heeft Microsoft ook Expression Encoder 1.0 beschikbaar gesteld. Het programma is een plugin voor Internet Explorer, Firefox en Safari en kan in de browser interactieve applicaties en video vertonen. Silverlight werd in april aan het publiek voorgesteld als tegenhanger van Adobe Flash. De nieuwe versie kan vanaf deze pagina gedownload worden voor Windows en Mac OS X. Microsoft heeft zojuist versie 1.0 van Silverlight uitgebracht.
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