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On Thursday, October 15th, we will be presenting a webinar entitled "How to Deliver True HD with Silverlight and Smooth Streaming." During the one-hour webinar, we'll cover the following topics... What Smooth Streaming is and why it is the future of online video delivery How Smooth Streaming delivers HDTV-quality experiences over HTTP How it has been successfully implemented for major live events and on-demand content The end-to-end steps for delivering your content with Smooth Streaming IIS Smooth Streaming is part of the recently-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. Part of that release was the beta of the Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, which allows developers to easily create Smooth Streaming experiences using Silverlight. I will be co-presenting with Jaime Miles from Level 3, with whom we worked on Smooth Streaming of many high-visibilty live...
IIS Media Services 3.0 has been released and is now available as a free download for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2! Chris Knowlton has a comprehensive post on the release and all the details, here is a quick summary: IIS Media Services, an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform, delivers true HD (720p+) streaming and provides real-time logging to measure media investments. By offering a complete media delivery platform together with a traditional Web server, rich dynamic Web sites can now be managed and administered from a single Web platform. IIS Media Services offers the highest quality streaming media experience available on the Web. Server Features: With this release, the key elements of the IIS media server platform now include: · Smooth Streaming , adaptive streaming of media over HTTP · Live Smooth Streaming , for live adaptive streaming of broadcast events · Bit Rate Throttling , meters the speed that media is delivered to a player · Web...
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...
We’re excited to announce that IIS Media Services 3.0, which includes the RTW of Live Smooth Streaming is now available for download ( WebPI , x86 , x64 ). This release builds on the Beta’s functionality that delivered: Smooth bit-rate switching that provides your users the best possible quality at that moment in time Massive scalability through the use of cacheable HTTP Integrated Network DVR The team has been hard at work since the Beta making the product better. So what’s new in RTW? Here are the highlights... High Availability – multi-tier scalability and failover 24/7 and long-running event support Ad insertion support Try it out today by following the steps in one of the following walkthroughs: Getting Started with Live Smooth Streaming Creating and Managing Publishing Points Live Smooth Streaming for IIS 7.0 - Syndicating Content between Servers You can also download the new Smooth Streaming Deployment Guide for a step-by-step description of the encoding, server, and client set up...
Smooth Streaming and Live Smooth Streaming , both part of IIS Media Services 3.0, have been generating a lot of interest from content owners who want to provide a seamless viewing experience up to 1080p for their end users. Even in the Beta stage of Live Smooth Streaming, there have been dozens of live trials at high-visibility events, such as the French Open and the FIFA Confederations Cup. Today, we issued a press release highlighting this momentum and giving a preview of what we'll be demonstrating at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam later this week. To enable third parties who wish to build on IIS Smooth Streaming and the broader Microsoft media platform, we also released two specifications under the Community Promise Initiative: The IIS Smooth Streaming Transport Protocol Specification describes how live and on-demand Smooth Streaming audio/video content is distributed and cached over an HTTP network. The Protected Interoperable File Format (PIFF) specification...
Earlier this week I gave a TechEd session on IIS Media Services - Smooth Streaming, Advanced Logging and the IIS Media Services Ecosystem overall. Thanks to everyone who made it to this talk. It was really nice to have you there and your interest in technology was immense. Here is the recorded session delivered with Smooth Streaming in case you were not able to make it to the talk. ' /> Read More...
Web Playlists , an IIS Media Services extension for IIS 7.0, includes an Import ASX Playlist feature that you can use to create server-side playlist copies of your client-side Windows Media Player playlist files. For large playlists, this feature provides a good alternative to creating server-side playlist versions of client-side playlist files from the beginning, all while preserving the presentation order of the media entries that you worked so hard to put together in the Windows Media Player playlist. Windows Media Player 11 , the default Microsoft player on computers running Windows Server 2008 creates playlists with .wpl file name extensions. For the playlists that you have already created, it is easy to create ASX copies of your WPL playlist files and import them into the Web Playlists feature for a Web site or virtual directory. Web Playlists creates a copy of the imported ASX playlist file in ISX format, which is a file with a .isx file name extension. The ISX file requires further...
Today marks the start of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, and we brought our “A” game with a press release announcing the immediate availability of IIS Media Services 2.0 RTW ( WebPI , x86 , x64 ), including the first full production release of Smooth Streaming. You can try the experience for yourself on iis.net, and learn more on the media landing page . We are also pleased to have a key group of encoding ISVs announcing Smooth Streaming support with us, including Digital Rapids, Envivio Inc., Grab Networks Inc. (Anystream), Inlet Technologies, Rhozet, Telestream Inc., VBrick Systems Inc., ViewCast Corp. and Winnov Inc. This gives our customers lots of great choices for encoding compatible content and integrating Smooth Streaming delivery with their existing workflows. If you’re at NAB, come by the Microsoft booth to see demos of On-Demand and Live Smooth Streaming, including Live streams protected by PlayReady encryption. There are two releases available...
Today is a BIG day for the Microsoft Web Platform and a BIG day for the WEB. I’m down in Las Vegas at MIX and I just got off stage from the keynote where I demo’d just one of the many exciting and cool new things that make the Microsoft Web Platform better than ever. For example: Using the new Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta , you can now download and install all of the technologies that make up the Microsoft Web Platform, and some of the world’s most popular Web applications, in one simple tool. With the new Windows Web App Gallery , you can now discover world-class ASP.NET and PHP applications, read reviews from the community, and submit your own comments, as well as launch installation of an application in one click right from the browser. With IIS Media Services , a free addition to the IIS7 Web server, you can now provide high definition audio and video streams LIVE and on demand. With the final release of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 , you can now build applications in...
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