Part 5: Playback. This is the fifth of a five-part series of videos that describes the process for creating, deploying, and managing an IIS Smooth Streaming experience for a live broadcast-quality event.
Part 1: Introduction. Bill Staples, General Manager of the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft, introduces the series.
Part 2: Fundamentals. Chris Knowlton, Senior Product Manager on the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft, takes you through the fundamentals of IIS Smooth Streaming, shows you how to set up IIS Media Services 3.0 with the Web Platform Installer and how to configure it for Live Smooth Streaming.
Part 3: Encoding. John Bishop, Co-founder and Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Inlet Technologies, describes how the IIS Smooth Streaming encoding process works for live high-definition events, encoding best practices, and real world learnings from successful events.
Part 4: Distribution. Jaime Miles, Head of European Architecture and Engineering at Level 3 Communications, explains how IIS Smooth Streaming works with content distribution networks (CDNs) and how to work with CDNs.
Part 5: Playback. Scott Stanfield, CEO of Vertigo, talks about the viewer experience and video player for the NBC Sports presentation of Sunday Night Football and the Winter Olympics, and shows you how to use the Silverlight Media Framework to make your own compelling viewer experiences.