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Serving Media Content from User Folders in Web Playlists

You can use the Web Playlists feature in IIS Media Pack 1.0 to serve media assets referenced in Web playlist files (files with .isx file name extensions), provided that the media assets (audio and video files) are stored in folders on the Web server computer that can be accessed by the Web Playlists feature. By default, these folders include the Web site root (< systemdrive >\inetpub\wwwroot). If you want to serve media assets stored in your user account folders (for example, music files stored in < systemdrive >\Users\< username >\Music>, you can create impersonation credentials in the Web Playlists feature to enable Web Playlists to connect to the media assets under the context of an authenticated Windows client. This allows you to maintain one set of media files that you can serve to customers, rather than creating copies of the files in the Web site root. This article describes how to create impersonation credentials in Web Playlists for your user account Music...

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...

Delivering audio and video media with Windows Web Server 2008

Questions from customers on the floor of the NAB 2008 Show underscored again for me that many customers are interested in delivering digital media with Windows Web Server 2008 . Why? Because for $469, you can get the power of IIS 7.0 , the new IIS Media Pack , and Windows Media Services 2008 in a slimmed-down version of Windows Server 2008 to deliver media to the Internet. Whether you are a hoster building a Silverlight-enabled Web server farm, an enterprise administrator increasing your Web video capacity, or a small company putting up your first media server, Windows Web Server 2008 provides a great low-cost option for delivering your content. -Chris 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...

Exciting media announcements at MIX08

There were many very cool announcements and demos during Scott Guthrie's portion of the MIX08 Day 1 Keynote , and media technologies related to Silverlight were key among them. One 15-minute segment on media included talking points on Windows Media Services 2008 (WMS), the IIS7 Media Pack, Bit Rate Throttling screen shots and client experience, and Web Playlists in an advertising demo. Here are links to information on some of the media technologies mentioned in the keynote: Release of the Silverlight 2 Beta , bringing the ease and power of the .NET framework to a cross-platform cross-browser plug-in Move Networks integration with Silverlight , a great example of a company making use of new Adaptive Streaming capabilities in Silverlight 2 Expression Encoder 2 Beta , which accelerates encoding, improves video quality, and includes new Silverlight templates IIS 7.0 Media Pack Bit Rate Throttling , which allows you to save money and increase scalability when delivering media from your Web...

IIS 7 Media Pack Web Playlists is Live

Yesterday, we launched the first CTP of Web Playlists, a server-side playlist solution for progressive download scenarios. The Web Playlists enables key scenarios and is totally format agnostic. If you have media on your IIS server, Web Playlists has a way for you to distribute it. We are really excited as we continue to work on this feature and hope this really adds value to your business. As I mentioned above Web Playlists enables key scenarios: Monetization of content - Web Playlist makes it easier for a web site delivering media content to monetize the same by adding pre-roll and inline ads. The playlist creator has an option to disable seeking, skipping on the ad. This helps ensure revenue to continue supporting media content on the site Compliance - Web Playlist has an option to control Skipping back to the previous song. This helps in complying with standards like those of Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). These standard limit the number of times a song could be played...