Serving Media Content

Published on November 14, 2007 by pharr

Updated on April 09, 2009 by pharr

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Smooth Streaming

Smooth Streaming, an IIS Media Services extension for IIS 7.0, enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight clients over HTTP. Smooth Streaming provides a high-quality viewing experience that scales massively on content distribution networks, making ...

Live Smooth Streaming

Live Smooth Streaming, an IIS Media Services Beta extension for IIS 7.0, enables adaptive streaming of live events to clients. Using HTTP to deliver live events takes advantage of the scale of existing HTTP networks, keeps content close to the user, and makes ...

Web Playlists

Web Playlists, an IIS Media Services extension for IIS 7.0, provides developers and hosters unprecedented control of how media content is delivered to users. Powerful customization features make it possible to monetize media delivery scenarios by inserting ...

Bit Rate Throttling

Bit Rate Throttling, an IIS Media Services extension for IIS 7.0, saves money on network costs by metering the download speed of multiple media file types, as well as data files. Bit Rate Throttling accomplishes this by automatically detecting the encoded ...

Windows Media Server or Web Server?

You can deliver digital media audio and video files either from a Windows Media server (a server that is running Windows Media Services) or from a Web server (a server that is running Internet Information Services (IIS)). In addition, you can deliver a live ...

Using HTTP for Streaming and Downloading from the Same Computer

You can use Microsoft Windows Media Services 2008 and Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 on the same computer for digital content delivery. For example, you may want to use Windows Media Services to stream a live broadcast to clients and use IIS to download ...

Edge Caching for Media Delivery

One of the advantages to using IIS Media Services is how well it integrates with the rest of the IIS Web platform. Edge caching using Application Request Routing is a great example of how the robust capabilities of IIS allow you to increase scalability, save ...

Adding Windows Media Services 2008 on an IIS 7.0 Server

This topic describes the steps to add Windows Media ServicesĀ® 2008, the Streaming Media Services role for Windows ServerĀ® 2008, to a server that already has IIS 7.0 installed. Click here to see the article on Microsoft TechNet. ...

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