Hi Ras For streaming, do you mean a client can watch the video files as they are downloading? If yes, you can do streaming mpg / flv files with IIS Media Pack - Web Playlists. If you use Bit Rate Throttling in addition, you should be able to save bandwidth if the client does not completely watch the...

Hi Ras Could you please share the isx file? Copy-paste in your reply? Also, could you please tell us the name you are giving to the playlist? regards Vishal

One more question: Are you able to create a playlist by directly writing a file with the following format by hand? Just create a file (e.g., sample.isx) and copy contents below into the file and see if you can then view it in the UI. The extension .isx is important. <!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-/...

Hi Mathi, Web Playlists is a progressive download solution while WMS Server-side playlists is used for streaming. There are a few questions I wanted to ask before determining if Web Playlists would work for your scenario: Do you enforce skip on your advertisments? Are your advertisements coming from...

Hi, I am sorry for the errors you are seeing. What version of playlists are you using? Also, did you start seeing this error the moment you installed or did it work initially? Regards Vishal

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...

Hi DREA Thanks for trying it out, please let us know if you have any feedback for us. Meanwhile, for Web Playlists, we actually return an asx in the response. It looks like below. Having said that, you are right, in your scneario asx might actually work better since you want to share playlists. Web Playlists...

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...

Also, in addition to what Anil suggested could you share your index.html, playlist (I already have that) and playlist configuration from apphost.config and web.config. I will try a local repro. Vista + IE7 combination works and I use that for demos all the time.

Hi, Could you please do a small test? Open notepad, Click File-> open and type in the location to the playlist. See if you get an xml in the notepad. Regards Vishal