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

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. Live Smooth Streaming: How-to: Start, Stop & Shutdown a Publishing Point Programmatically...

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...

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

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...

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...

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."...

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...

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...

[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...