Is it possible to password protect the streaming media coming out of IIS Smooth Stream? I want to publish some content using Smooth Streaming and I want to require users to login to view it. If I can't secure it somehow people could view the content without ever logging into the site. What are my...

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...

Hi there, I just wanted to add my vote to this, I'm working on a project where Smooth streaming would be a perfect fit. Having access to the player code with the extra features, would be really helpful. Cheers, Ola

Hi, Andreas, You can reach out to Ben via a comment on his blog post, or you can reach me at http://blogs.iis.net/chriskno/contact.aspx . -Chris

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)

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...

Hi, I've installed IIS Live Smooth Streaming - Beta on both Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server. I've also downloaded and unzipped the Big_Buck_Bunny_Sample-IIS_Smooth_Streaming_Beta Smooth Streaming video files and the Starter_Kit-IIS_Live_Smooth_Streaming_Beta (containing the encoder simulator...

Hi Keivan The only source code we have released is available with Expression Encoder 2 SP1. Did you already take a look at that? Regards Vishal

I have a question. I read in a post that if the video streamed from a WMS is Multiple-Bit-Rate Encoded, if played in a Silverlight media element then only the highest Bitrate stream is played and there is no automatic switching to a lower bit rate stream. If this is true does it mean that Microsoft is...

The beta of Smooth Streaming (as well as Live Smooth Streaming) is now available! Learn more at http://www.iis.net/media .