IIS7 - Media

Re: Web Playlists

Stavros Raptis — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:06:27 GMT

Of course, but Silverlight cannot handle MBR streams, does not have a controls.currentAudioLanguage property that gives you the LCID of the audio language that currently plays in a multilingual stream, and of course a Smooth Streaming video (that is the future) cannot be streamed from WMS. I don't know if in the next version of WMS and/or Media Services for IIS the gap will be bridged. If Microsoft could announce what is planned for the next version of these services then everyone could make also his plans for the near future.

Re: Web Playlists

prakashd — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:10:58 GMT

Could you not use silverlight and use with SSPL from WMS ?

Re: Web Playlists

Stavros Raptis — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:51:03 GMT

Hi Vishal. I am the administrator of an Internet only Station. The streaming is based on Windows Media Services and SSPL that are combining recorded videos and Live broadcasts. A common scenario using the WMS. But... we want to get rid of the Embedded Media Player and replace it with Silverlight and Media Element. The reason is the compatibility issues with browsers other that IE. Properties like Controls.currentAudioLanguageIndex (we are also multilingual) are only exposed if Media Player is embedded as ActiveX object that can be done without plugins only on IE. The next problem is that if we use Silverlight with our current configuration the use of MBR streaming should be dropped because it is not honored in Silverlight. The next problem is that Smooth Streaming files, that is the future, can only be streamed from IIS with Media Services but now simulated live scenario like the one needed for an Internet only station cannot be used if Web Playlists don't have wall-clock functionality... So as it seems we are stack with WMS SSPL, MBR files and many select case blocks to make use of as many browsers as we can. I would appreciate if you have any thoughts.

Stavros

Re: Web Playlists

vsood — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:11:34 GMT

Hi Stavros. Wall-clock is not currently supported in Web Playlists and there is no plan for the same yet. Could you please share the scenario you plan to use it with and then we can take your feedback right into are feature prioritization.

Web Playlists

Stavros Raptis — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:40:25 GMT

Hi,

I've tried today the web playlists functionality of IIS Media Services 3.0 Beta. Unfortunately I didn't found anything that can be used instead of the simulated live functionality of server side playlists of Windows Media Services, like wallclock. Am I missing something? Is it something that will be added in the release version?