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The Smooth Streaming Client SDK Beta 1 for Metro Style Apps enables developers to build Windows 8 Metro Style applications that can play on-demand and live Smooth Streaming content with or without Microsoft PlayReady protection. This document...

If you want to serve the transformed on-demand output from IIS Transform Manager 1.0 to clients, you must move or copy the transformed output files to a server that's running the IIS Smooth Streaming feature in IIS Media Services 4. The Smooth...

IIS Transform Manager 1.0 Beta is an extensible media transform engine that enables "watch folder" job submission, queuing, management, integrated media transcoding/transmuxing, and batch-encryption of on-demand audio and video files. One example...

June 2010 These release notes are for the Beta 2 release of the IIS Smooth Streaming Format Software Development Kit 1.0. This release is provided under the IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK license terms that accompany this package. The package...

Last Updated: September 2, 2011 Applies To: IIS Smooth Streaming Client 1.1 RTW IIS Smooth Streaming Client 1.5 RTW Note IIS Smooth Streaming Client 1.5 was updated on September 2, 2011. Be sure to install this version to get the latest bug fixes...

Applies To: IIS Media Services 4 (IIS Media Services 4.1 and IIS Media Services 4.0), IIS Media Services 3 Last Updated: November 8, 2011 IIS Media Services integrates with Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 to provide a secure, scalable, and...

You can configure a new notifications feature in IIS Transform Manager 1.0 Beta to POST web requests with job status changes to a remote web application or service. This enables web developers to build a custom Transform Manager job-monitoring...

Last Updated: April 27, 2011 You can use the IIS Transform Manager 1.0 Beta extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 to transcode media files to Smooth Streaming and MPEG-2 Transport Stream (MPEG-2 TS) container formats. One web server...

The Beta release of IIS Transform Manager 1.0 doesn't contain robust event and error reporting. This article provides troubleshooting guidance for the following types of issues that you might encounter while using the software: Failed Tasks...

IIS Media Services is a set of extensions for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 that deliver and manage media content. It is part of a complete technology platform for deploying a highly available, highly scalable, media delivery environment...

Last Updated: August 2010 IIS Media Services , an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform, delivers true HD (720p+) live and on-demand streaming, DVR functionality, and real-time analytics support to computers, TVs, and mobile devices. By...

IIS Transform Manager 1.0 is an extensible media-transform engine that enables job submission, queuing, management, integrated media transcoding/transmuxing, and batch-encryption of on-demand audio and video files. Transform Manager supports a...

Applies To: IIS Media Services 4 IIS Live Smooth Streaming enables delivery of live Smooth Streaming presentations in multiple formats without re-encoding: Smooth Streaming format for Microsoft® Silverlight® clients and Apple HTTP Live Streaming...

The Content Protection in Silverlight white paper provides an overview of how Microsoft® Silverlight™ not only enables you to offer a wide-range of digital content to your customers, but how it also provides content protection that helps you...

The Live and On-Demand Video with Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming white paper provides a high-level overview of the challenges of traditional video delivery technologies, what adaptive streaming is, and how IIS Smooth Streaming allows you to...

.style1 { MARGIN-LEFT: 40px } IIS Smooth Streaming has been used for many high-visibility online video events. Delivering Live and On-Demand Smooth Streaming is a white paper, written by iStreamPlanet , which provides an inside look at the...

.style1 { border-width: 0px; } .style2 { border: 8px solid #0000FF; } .style3 { text-align: center; border-width: 0; } .style4 { text-align: center; border-width: 0; font-weight: bold; } Part 4: Distribution . This is the fourth of a five-part...

.style1 { border-width: 0px; } .style2 { border: 8px solid #0000FF; } .style3 { text-align: center; border-width: 0; } .style4 { text-align: center; border-width: 0; font-weight: bold; } Part 3: Encoding . This is the third of a five-part series...

.style1 { border-width: 0px; } .style2 { border: 8px solid #0000FF; } .style3 { text-align: center; border-width: 0; } .style4 { text-align: center; border-width: 0; font-weight: bold; } Part 2: Fundamentals . This is the second of a five-part...

.style1 { border-width: 0px; } .style2 { border: 8px solid #0000FF; } .style3 { text-align: center; border-width: 0; } .style4 { text-align: center; border-width: 0; font-weight: bold; } Part 1: Introduction . This is the first of a five-part...

.style1 { FONT-SIZE: small } .style2 { TEXT-ALIGN: center } .style3 { TEXT-ALIGN: left } .style4 { TEXT-ALIGN: center } .style5 { FONT-WEIGHT: normal } IIS Smooth Streaming provides users with a truly compelling way to watch the...

Last Updated: August 16, 2010 Smooth Streaming is the Microsoft implementation of adaptive streaming technology, which is a form of Web-based media content delivery that uses standard HTTP. Instead of delivering media as full-file downloads, or as...

This walkthrough describes how to configure Live Smooth Streaming server-to-server syndication. Requirements Usage Scenario Security Best Practices Configuring the Upstream Publishing Point Securing the Upstream Publishing Point Configuring...

By default, Windows Media Player 11 in Windows Server 2008 creates playlists in WPL format (files with .wpl file name extensions). This article describes how to create copies of the playlist files in ASX format (files with .asx file name...

The Smooth Streaming extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 dynamically detects local bandwidth and CPU conditions and seamlessly switches, in near real time, the video quality of a media file that a player receives. Consumers with...

Applies To: IIS Media Services 4 When you create Live Smooth Streaming publishing points in IIS Manager, you can choose from different options to support the following live media delivery scenarios (multiple scenarios can apply): Deliver a live...

Applies To: IIS Media Services 4 The IIS Live Smooth Streaming extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 allows you to set up a web server as a Live Smooth Streaming server that delivers compelling, uninterrupted live video streams that...

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...

Applies To: IIS Media Services 4.0, IIS Media Services 3.0 To create Smooth Streaming presentations, source content is encoded at several quality levels (bit rates) using Microsoft Expression Encoder or a compression tool from one of our many...

Applies To: IIS Media Services 4 The IIS Smooth Streaming extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 allows you to set up a Web server as a Smooth Streaming server with a default Microsoft Silverlight client implementation. This...

Applies To: IIS Media Services 4.0 You can clone your on-demand Smooth Streaming presentations in order to make different sets of bit rates available to your audience. For example, if you want to save bandwidth costs, you can remove the highest...

You can serve media assets referenced in Web playlist files (files with .isx file name extensions), provided that the files are stored in folders on the Web server computer that can be accessed by the Web Playlists feature. By default, these...

You can use Microsoft Windows Media Services 2008 and Internet Information Services (IIS) 7. 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...

Web Playlists for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 supports Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) style sheets that filter or customize the XML data in the Web Playlists HTTP response to clients. For example, you can create...

You can deliver digital media audio and video files and live streams 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) 7...

Web Playlists allows you to extend its default behavior by writing custom providers. It provides a COM interface that can be implemented in either a .NET-based or native custom provider. This document contains the following sections: Writing...

To learn the general steps required to add Windows Media Services ® 2008 to an existing Windows Server ® 2008 server, click here to see the article on Microsoft TechNet. If you already have both Windows Media Services 2008 and IIS 7 installed and...

This article describes how various clients can interact with Web Playlists to display the playlist content. Web Playlists works with the clients mentioned in this article; however, any client that supports ASX natively or through extensions can...

Web Playlists for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 provides the ability to control media delivery to clients and limit a client’s ability to seek or skip individual entries in the playlist. This article provides information about the settings...

Web Playlists for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 provides the ability to control media delivery to clients and limit a client’s ability to seek or skip individual entries in the playlist. Server administrators can enable or disable...

Bit Rate Throttling for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 provides the ability to throttle progressive downloads of media files (in which audio/video playback starts as soon as sufficient data has been buffered on the client) based on the...

The Bit Rate Throttling extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 provides the ability to throttle progressive downloads of media files (in which audio/video playback starts as soon as sufficient data has been buffered on the client...