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...

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...

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

To follow up on #2, you now have more choices for creating Smooth Streaming content. This week, Inlet Technologies announced full encoding support for both Live and on-demand Smooth Streaming, in both their Spinnaker and Armada products. Read about it here: http://inlethd.com/download.php?mode=getFile&type...

Hi, VA, Answers to your questions... 1. WMS can provide the older Intelligent Streaming feature, but to get the latest adaptive streaming functionality, you will need IIS Smooth Streaming running on IIS 7.0. 2. Currently, Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 SP1 is required to create IIS Smooth Streaming content...

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...