Search results matching tag 'media'

Re: Failure on trying to install Media Services 2008 R2 on Windows 2008 R2

chriskno — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:27:15 GMT

Hi, Florian. Let me clarify. The currently available version of Windows Media Services 2008 R2 (WMS) is the Release Candidate (build 7100). It will only install on (or in other words, the update will only apply to) the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2 (also build 7100).

If I understand correctly, you wish to install WMS on the final release (build 7600) of Windows Server 2008 R2. The build 7600 version of WMS is not yet available for any language.

WMS ships out-of-band from Windows Server, and the final release schedules for the two diverged. We are currently targeting the release of WMS build 7600 in the first quarter of 2010.

-Chris

Obfuscated / Tokenized content security

Detlif — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:21:23 GMT

Hi everybody out there

I am looking for a way to prevent that our streaming video content is accessed from other players/clients than ours (wmp/silverlight).
We are also starting up with smooth streaming. So that must also be protected againt hotlink/deep linking.

At this point we are using an application on the streaming servers that validates a tokenized url before serving the stream to the requester. But that application does not work on ws8 / iis7.

I can see that there are some obfuscating feature in the playlist module, that maybe could provide some of this protection. But as I read it that only secures that the content is played in the order specified in the playlist. And what we would need is a way to ensure that we only allow the content to be viewed in our players by validated users.

Is there any way to do this or do we still ned a 3. party application installed on the servers?

IIS 7 mp4 playback does not allow random access or seeking

arseman03 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:35:25 GMT

i used this website to create the mime type and module handler:

http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-H264-Streaming-Internet-Information-Services-IIS7-Version2

when i play the hosted mp4 file in quicktime or from a browser, i am not able to seek past whats already downloaded, i am only able to seek through the beginning portion of the file that is downloaded.

can someone PLEASE tell me how i can configure IIS7 or what i can do to allow seeking?

i have read somewhere that what i need to achieve is to enable byte-range requests. Byte-range support is also known as content-range or partial-range support

Re: Changing from different bitrates took nearly 7 seconds in Smooth Streaming format

chriskno — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:29:54 GMT

Hi, Joeri,

The original IIS Smooth Streaming bit rate switching heuristics in Expression Encoder 2 SP1 are a bit conservative under some conditions, slowly ramping up to higher bit rates, one at a time. You might try passing your content through the IIS Smooth Streaming settings in Expression Encoder 3, which should provide improved heuristics performance.

-Chris

Re: Windows Media Services Plugins

chriskno — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:05:14 GMT

If all the valid requests will be coming from a specific website, would IP Address authorization meet your needs? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770273.aspx

-Chris

Smooth Streaming RTW Feedback Thread

jboch — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:43:23 GMT

We'd love to hear your feedback on the Smooth Streaming RTW released today. Please let us know any questions, issues and concerns.

Thanks!

--John (on behalf of the Smooth Streaming Feature 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/

Re: IIS Live smooth streaming

chriskno — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:34:30 GMT

Hi, Alina,

Whichever encoder you use will need to be able to create fragmented MP4 files and Smooth Streaming manifests. If the Inlet hardware is not an option for you at this time, look for announcements from other encoding companies in the weeks and months ahead. In the meantime, you might also contact your encoder manufacturer to let them know you would like them to add support for Live Smooth Streaming.

-Chris

Re: IIS Live smooth streaming

chriskno — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:30:21 GMT

Yes, you can use Live Smooth Streaming with a live source. The simulated encoding example we posted on IIS.net (i.e., get full how-to instructions, a sample client, and the Live Smooth Streaming Starter Kit at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/620/live-smooth-streaming-for-iis-70---getting-started/) are meant to let you try out the technology in minutes, without needing to acquire any additional technology.

To do live encoding, you will need to have an encoder that supports this, such as recently announced products from Inlet (www.inlethd.com). See the MIX conference session where this was demonstrated at http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T56F.

Additional encoding options will be available in the coming months.

-Chris

Re: Live Smooth Streaming feedback thread

chriskno — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:35:21 GMT

One comment, in case you missed it - you can try the new Live Smooth Streaming feature right now, and you don't need your own encoder or Silverlight client. Use the Live Smooth Streaming Starter Kit to try out this new functionality! Read more here: http://blogs.iis.net/jboch/archive/2009/03/20/live-smooth-streaming-try-it-now-no-encoder-required.aspx.