Hi, Roger, That is a concise summary! :-) I'd make just two clarifications, both to your last sentence: Windows Media audio and video files can be downloaded intact and played; progressively downloaded and played (playing starts even while the content is still downloading, typically from a Web server...

You are correct - as a supplemental Server Role for Windows Server, the only cost for Windows Media Services is for the operating system itself.

Hi, gkhniis, WMS supports streaming of .asf, .wma, .wmv, .jpg, .jpeg, and .mp3 file types. Unfortunately, it does not support .wav or .avi files. Please see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731194.aspx for more information. If you don't mind me asking, where did the quoted file types...

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...

Hi, Seatac, It sounds as if you have set this up properly for running IIS and WMS side-by-side. I think there may be another issue at play here, which can happen in some situations when your WMS 2008 server is behind a NAT firewall, proxy server, or load balancer. Please see this MSDN blog post for information...

Hi, Mike, It turns out that this can happen in some situations when your WMS 2008 server is behind a NAT firewall, proxy (e.g. ISA), or load balancer. Please see this MSDN blog post for information on how to resolve this. Let us know if this helps... -Chris

Hi all, I am a total nooby with Server 2008 and Windows Media Services. I have installed WMS 2008 on a stand alone Server 2008 (Standard) server. I created a new directory for the media files on a RAID drive this server. I can access the mms://etc/file.wmv internally but cannot strream the files over...

When setting up a cache/proxy media server for broadcast or on-demand, do you need to create publishing points? I understand you would do so on the origin server, and that on the origin server you would configure the cache/proxy plugin for each publishing point. But when configuring a cache/proxy media...

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...