Another FAQ for you...
As you may have already noticed, currently there is a bug in Silverlight Streaming that prevents WMV files created with Expression Encoder 2 to be transcoded successfully when you upload them to SLS using the Manage Videos turnkey scenario. Note that it works fine with WMV files encoded using Expression Encoder 1.
If you go through the time and effort of editing a video file with Expression Encoder 2, you probably don't want to run it through another transcoding pass anyway (different encoding profile than what you chose, double-encode glitches, etc.) So here is a simple workaround to bypass the SLS transcoding service should you want to upload a video file only.
Needless to say, this workaround only makes sense if the video file you are uploading to SLS is already Silverlight-compliant, encoded using a VC-1 codec. If you upload a file that cannot be played back in a Silverlight player, it won't do you much good to have it hosted in SLS.
- Once you’re done encoding your video file, rename it to VIDEO.WMV
- Go to http://silverlight.live.com, sign in into your SLS account and go to Manage Applications, *not* Manage Videos
- Provide an application name, then click on Create
- Browse to the file you just encoded, remember, it is called VIDEO.WMV, then click on Upload
- Done! Go to Manage Videos, you’ll see the “application” name in the video list, your video file is now hosted in SLS (you can play it back either by using the new http permalink feature, or the good old iframe invoking the default SLS player) and you’ve bypassed the SLS transcoding service.
Note: the standard SLS file size restrictions apply. If your video file is larger than 105 MB, the upload will fail.