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IIS Media Services 3.0, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, has been released

What Just Happened? We just released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging package. In addition, we released the beta of the Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, which allows developers to easily create Smooth Streaming experiences using Silverlight. Supported features include PlayReady, DVR controls, instant replay, slow motion, multiple camera angles, alternate audio tracks, content protection, ad integration, in-stream data feeds, and more. Market Impact Since April, 2009, key broadcasters around the world have used beta versions of IIS Media Services 3.0 to successfully broadcast some of the world's premier live events. These include the Tour de France and the Roland Garros 2009 International French Open Tennis Tournament on France Télévisions; the IAAF Athletics World Championships...

IIS Media Pack 1.0 Released

Following up on our Smooth Streaming announcement last week, today we released IIS Media Pack 1.0! This first release of the IIS Media Pack features two IIS 7.0 extensions that focus on the intelligent delivery of video and audio to end users: Bit Rate Throttling, and Web Playlists. Bit Rate Throttling Bit Rate Throttling gives Web server administrators the ability to automatically meter the delivery of 11 built-in media file types, including Windows Media Video (.wmv), Flash Video (.flv), and MPEG-4 (.mp4) files. Additional media formats can be added, as can any non-media file type. By controlling how fast or how much data is downloaded to the client, site operators can see significant bandwidth cost savings for rich media content that has a high drop-off rate, such as videos on popular social media sites. When bandwidth is a concern, reducing the amount of data being sent to end users can increase the number of concurrent users per server. Another feature of Bit Rate Throttling is dynamic...

Media delivery options in the Web Platform Installer

Yesterday, we released the new Microsoft Web Application Installer, or Web AI, at www.microsoft.com/web . This tool for IIS7 allows you to simply install and get running with some of the most popular PHP and ASP.NET open source and community applications. In case you missed it, we also released another tool on www.microsoft.com/web a few weeks ago: the Web Platform Installer (Web PI). Think of this, as Bill Staples put it , as "a one stop shop for downloading and installing the Microsoft Web Stack including IIS, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Visual Web Developer, all of the current IIS Extensions and more!" The IIS Media Pack features are among the IIS Extensions available in Web PI. If you use this tool, you will always get the latest production-ready versions of the IIS media features. Here's the quickest way to find and install the IIS media features, using Web PI in five steps: Launch Web PI: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9588072 Click on Run when prompted After a moment, when...

Windows Media Server or Web Server?

As promised in Chris Knowlton's Blog , we have an updated document that compares digital media content delivery from Windows Media servers (running Windows Media Services 2008) and Web servers (running IIS 7.0). You can find it here . Read More...

Concepts of IIS Bit Rate Throttling – Part 2

Managing Service Quality There are many situations under which we would like to impose limits to file serving speed and the number of clients served. For example, a large rogue media file with a huge (faked) bit rate may cause unfair server bandwidth contention with legitimate media files of small bit rates and cause the serving quality deterioration of these files; similarly serving too many requests simultaneously for certain popular media files can also cause server saturation that defeats the purpose of progressive download—nobody can have a smooth viewing experience. The Bit Rate Throttling settings maximum throttle rate and connection limit are designed for better management of such undesirable scenarios. Further, a default throttle rate can be applied to all files at a certain location, being it a site, virtual directory, or physical folder, so that these files, which may be of too many different types to have a throttling setting for each, can all be served at a reduced constant...

Concepts of IIS Bit Rate Throttling - Part 1

Bit Rate Throttling is the first IIS extension module released in IIS Media Pack. It adds to IIS the capability of per-response bandwidth control for the delivery of media and data contents. The idea for this module initially grew out of the need to serve progressive media downloads while saving bandwidth costs. Its core functionality was to automatically detect the encoded bit-rate of files of a wide range of video and audio formats and serve the requests at a ratio to the encoded bit-rate as specified by the administrator. However, during its development we saw the needs of more general bandwidth control capabilities that can be logically combined with its media functionalities and over time Bit Rate Throttling Module has evolved into a full-rounded bandwidth control package for IIS. There are several blog articles describing in detail aspects of Bit Rate Throttling. Here however I would like to give an overview of the capabilities of this module, not too drawn into the technical details...

Bit Rate Throttling is the pick of the week on Channel 9

Bit Rate Throttling was Brian's pick of the week on channel 9. We love you Brian :) Here is the link to video and the post on the site - Click (To see the relevant section in the video seek to around 16:28 into the video.) Here is the excerpt from the post: This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover: - Updates to Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D - including export GPS, new traffic-based directions, importing of 3D models into VE 3D (add a massive 9-guy on campus), MapCruncher for overlays of user...( read more ) Read More...

Bit Rate Throttling is 1 week old - some interesting thoughts and applications

Last week, we announced the release of Bit Rate Throttling (BRT) module and there has been a lot of positive feedback already. I love the way the world of media latches on to new things so fast. Scott Guthrie posted about the release in his blog here . Thank you Scott! I really like how he Is there something about BRT that all Scott's seem like it? I say this because Scott Hansleman also posted about BRT. In his post he covers a great scenario from the podcasting world. He wants to save bandwidth...( read more ) Read More...

Dynamic Throttling with Bit Rate Throttling

In the latest RTW release of Bit Rate Throttling, we have an amazing feature - dynamic throttling. It can also be looked at as bandwidth splitting. The primary intentions of this post is to serve as an introduction to this feature. In our earlier releases if we had Bit Rate Throttling enabled, we would just throttle the media/data file at the desired rate. This is very useful, however there are scenarios where you want to use throttling to plan bandwidth better, for example, you want to be able to...( read more ) Read More...

Bit Rate Throttling is now released

Bit Rate Throttling is now out of Beta. We are really pleased to announced the release of IIS Media Pack Bit Rate Throttling Download Links 32 bit - http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1640 64 bit - http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1641 The key features that constitute V 1.0 of Bit Rate Throttling are: Automatically reads the encoded bit rate information from each defined media file type Per-response bandwidth limiting on progressive downloads...( read more ) Read More...