Search results matching tag 'IIS Media Services'

Re: IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit 1.0 - Beta 1 Feedback

mikegoatly — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:58:41 GMT

Hi, I've been having a bit of trouble getting the media player working with some smooth streaming videos hosted on our IIS server running Media Services 3 - the bottom line is that I get this error when I try to play the media:

Caught exception trying to parse initial manifest / initialize buffering engine: Manifest has a missing or empty 'Url' attribute on an <StreamIndex> node

The media was published using Expression Encoder 3 and the published player plays the media fine.

The simplest test was to modify the default.html file that comes with the player SDK to point it to the relevant file.ism/Manifest. This didn't work and gave the above error - I've even made sure that as much as possible the parameters in the SDK file match the published Encoder 3 player parameters, e.g. frameRate, width and height, to no effect.

I've even tried using the SmoothStreamingMediaElement directly in a custom built app by simply setting the SmoothStreamingSource and calling Play, but the same error occurs.

The error would seem to indicate a problem with the manifest file, specifically a StreamIndex node. I've had a look at the file, and there are indeed StreamIndex entries that don't have a Url node, but they are of type "text" and define chapters and commands. Removing these nodes doesn't get things working, so I don't think they are anything to do with the problem anyway.

Any suggestions?

Mike

Edit: it has occurred to me that this may not be the most appropriate place for this post - I only put it here because it was my immediate feedback for the SDK - please feel free to move it elsewhere if needed.

IIS Live Smooth Streaming RTW Feedback

jboch — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:57:44 GMT

Please use this thread to provide feedback on our RTW. We look forward to your input!

IIS Live Smooth Streaming Team

Re: IIS 7 smooth streaming

ganesan007 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:48:22 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to use WPF MediaElement to stream IIS 7 Smooth stream video (.ism) which is converted by using Expression Enocder?

If it so please give me some idea about that. It is really headache for me to use silverlight smooth streaming player into my WPF application. If you give any suggestion or idea that will helpful for me proceed my work.

Thanks in advance!!!

--- Ganesh

Re: Live Smooth Streaming - Encoders

chriskno — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:47:56 GMT

Hi, Einar,

Several new hardware and software encoders that support Live Smooth Streaming should be available soon. Stay tuned!

-Chris

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

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: Fast seek forward or backward videos is not working on IIS 7.0

chriskno — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:01:01 GMT

Hi, Serhan,

A couple of questions for you. Which player are your end users using? Are there any HTTP proxies between the IIS server and the end users?

-Chris

Smooth Stream 4001 Error From ASP.NET MVC Page

theregit — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:58:10 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to use IIS Smooth Stream to deliver some video content to our customers and I need to protect the video content behind a secured portal. I was able to get IIS Smooth Stream installed and able to use Expression Encoder to encode a video. I used the Big Bunny Default.html page as an example and was able to get a Video.html page to deliver my content via Smooth Stream.

However, when I put the EXACT same HTML that works on the Video.html site into a page that I generated with ASP.NET MVC I get the following error:

System.Exception: 4001 An error has occurred. Requires output to be hsoted on a web server running IIS 7.0 with the Smooth Streaming handler installed and a Silverlight 2 template that supports Smooth Streaming.

Both pages that work and don't work are on the same web server in the same domain. For reference:

http://<portalurl>/Video.html (works)

but

http://<portalurl>/Videos/1 (ASP.NET MVC - doesn't work).

Both of these pages have the <object> tag from the Default.html in the Big Bunny example with the url's changed. Like I said the same exact <object> tag works from the .html page but not the ASP.NET MVC generated page. I thought this would be a client side technology? Why does it matter how I get the <object> tag to the browser?

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

theregit

Re: Smooth Streaming RTW Feedback Thread

chriskno — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:15:59 GMT

Thanks, Andreas,

Both #1 and #2 are by design. There was a configuration change between the Smooth Streaming 2.0 RTW and 3.0 Beta releases that required that we block them from installing side-by-side.

If you just want to test, especially with Live Smooth Streaming, then please just keep your existing IIS Media Services 3.0 Beta installation. If you want to go into production with IIS Smooth Streaming, please uninstall the IIS Media Services 3.0 Beta features (IIS Bit Rate Throttling, IIS Web Playlists, IIS Smooth Streaming, and IIS Live Smooth Streaming) via Control Panel / Programs and Features, and then install IIS Media Services 2.0 using either method 1 or 2.

Hope this helps. If this fundamentally blocks you in some way, please let us know.

-Chris

Re: Live Smooth Streaming - Programmatically

chriskno — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:29:44 GMT

Hi, Ezequiel,

Thanks for sharing these useful how-to posts! :-)

-Chris