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...

Please use this thread to provide feedback on our RTW. We look forward to your input! IIS Live Smooth Streaming Team

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...

Hi, Einar, Several new hardware and software encoders that support Live Smooth Streaming should be available soon. Stay tuned! -Chris

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Hi, Ezequiel, Thanks for sharing these useful how-to posts! :-) -Chris