Search results matching tag 'Media Pack'

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

Live Smooth Streaming - Programmatically

ejadib — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:11:03 GMT

Hi guys,

I want to share with you the posts I wrote about performing different Live Smooth Streaming operations programatically, such as retrieving the configuration settings and start/stop/shutdown a publishing point.

I hope you find the posts useful.

Ezequiel Jadib
http://blogs.southworks.net/ejadib/

IIS Smooth Streaming

chriskno — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:39:13 GMT

Today, we announced IIS Smooth Streaming, a new media extension for IIS 7.0 that enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight clients via HTTP. Smooth Streaming dynamically detects and seamlessly switches the video quality of a media file being delivered to a Silverlight player, based on current networking and local PC conditions.

As part of the press release, Akamai announced plans to roll out a new service using IIS Smooth Streaming in the first half of 2009, to be called "Akamai AdaptiveEdge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight." To experience Smooth Streaming on an Akamai proof-of-concept portal, visit www.smoothhd.com.

Check out www.iis.net/media and blogs.iis.net/media to learn more.

-Chris

Re: WMS Playlist Vs IIS7 Web Playlists

Mathirajan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:40:25 GMT

Hi Vishal,

1. No, the advertisements cannot be skipped.

2. The advertisements are local.

We also want to log the statistics & authenticate the users.

How can one decide which platform to choose for their requirement. Anything published regarding this?

Mathi

WMS Playlist Vs IIS7 Web Playlists

Mathirajan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:03:20 GMT

We are using WMS serverside playlist in our application - I just found IIS7 Web Playlists CTP2, I'm trying to understand the difference between these two.

Our requirement is to add advertisements like TV commercials to a main video. I appreciate any inputs on this, mainly the correct platform to use - should it be wms server side playlist or IIS7 web playlist & authentication.

Mathi

Re: stream your own music to anywhere over wan or lan

vsood — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:12:41 GMT

This is great DREA, I am glad to see you are helping people uncover really cool scenarios.

Have you also tried installing Bit Rate Throttling, Web Playlists along with this. Web Playlists would can import client side playlists asx and then give you a single url that you can play from anywhere.

Regards

Vishal

Web playlist provider error - 404 error generated even when a file is found

James Newton-King — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:08:01 GMT

Every time a song is played through the web playlist provider a 404 error is generated and a fault log is written. This happens even when a file is successfully getting returned to a user.

The error in the fault xml file is "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

The files are coming from a share on another computer. This is the path that is showing up in the fault:

\\?\UNC\WLGSQL01\music$\Ween\-Shinola- Vol. 1\03 - I Fell In Love Today.wma

The error itself seems to be thrown from GetFileInfo:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="WWW Server" Guid="{3A2A4E84-4C21-4981-AE10-3FDA0D9B0F83}"/>
<EventID>0</EventID>
<Version>1</Version>
<Level>4</Level>
<Opcode>6</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x200</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-08-01T06:43:00.557Z"/>
<Correlation ActivityID="{00000000-0000-0000-4F09-0080000000F6}"/>
<Execution ProcessID="5044" ThreadID="3532"/>
<Computer>WLGWEB01</Computer>
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="ContextId">{00000000-0000-0000-4F09-0080000000F6}</Data>
<Data Name="ModuleName">PlaylistHandler</Data>
<Data Name="Data1">GetFileInfo for playlist: returned 8007007b</Data>
<Data Name="Data2"></Data>
<Data Name="ErrorCode">2147942523</Data>
</EventData>
<RenderingInfo Culture="en-NZ">
<Opcode>MODULE_INFORMATION</Opcode>
<Keywords>
<Keyword>Module</Keyword>
</Keywords>
<freb:Description Data="ErrorCode">The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
(0x8007007b)</freb:Description>
</RenderingInfo>
<ExtendedTracingInfo xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/trace">
<EventGuid>{D79A948E-95F1-417B-A731-B7A79DEC7AE5}</EventGuid>
</ExtendedTracingInfo>
</Event>

How do I fix this? It is making tracking down actual errors very hard.

Re: Bitrate throttling model should use Content Type Header

vsood — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:55:15 GMT

Hi Shiv

In addition what we also have is a server variable. If you want to change the throttling rate programmatically you could use server variables (details - refer section "Throttling with Server Variables").

Also Scott Hanselman blogged about how to do this here.

And as Jack mentioned you could add rules based on MIME types but those will have to data rules (i.e., fixed bit rate and you cannot use percentages). This would work great if you have most of the videos at a fixed bit-rate on your site.

Thanks
Vishal

Re: Httpd Urls and web playlists

vsood — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:15:49 GMT

Thanks, for liking the post as well as helping answer my question.

I get your scenario now, we could extend httpd logic to give complete entries or even complete playlists. Do you know how you would use that feature? Do you have a scenario in mind?

Also, I am really happy to see you using Web Playlists. I would really love to hear how you are using it in your scenario.

Re: Httpd Urls and web playlists

vsood — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:03:51 GMT

[quote user="winston1000"]

Can or will httpd url processing be used with properties other than location?

[/quote]

Currently, no. The idea is to let admin enforce controls like CanSeek, etc. Do you see a use for that?

[quote user="winston1000"]

When a playlist request is made by the client how many entries are processed and handed initially? It seems that it caches or requests current and next entry is this correct?

[/quote]

Each entry is requested from the provider the moment it is requested. So only one entry is requested at a time

[quote user="winston1000"]

Also, when is each request made in a typical running playlist.. ie. all entries on first request, X seconds before end of current entry, at end of current entry, etc.?

[/quote]

A media player (client) is the one making the request. A typical player tries to request next entry just before the current one is over to give a smooth experience. A client request will always be honored if there is no flag like CanSkip set. If a flag is set, whether a request is granted or rejected depends on the AllowSkipAfterMinPercent flag. If this flag is set to 80, it means after 80% of the current entry is downloaded by the client the next one can be requested.