I have good new and bad news: Good news is media service on Windows Sever 2008 performs 50% better than Windows 2003 with same hardware. We test with live streaming of 600kbps, 1500 concurrent users on Windows 2008 runs very smooth while 1000 concurrent users on Windows 2003 runs out all ram and start...

Hi, This is indeed a good place to ask WMS questions could you please let us know what build you are using? The recently released RTM build has the class you are referring to. Thanks!

Great to hear that :) Thanks for trying it out. The best way to do this would be to cache the ad and split the live stream within a playlist. However, cache proxy plugin does not support server side playlists so you cannot use either the stream splitting or caching in this case. The perf impact would...

Yes, wrapper playlist works after disabling stream splitting. Thank you very much. This leads to another question: How does the extra connection impact server performance and scalability? We are planning a 100k concurrent connection media server farm and try to use Windows Server 2008 media service proxy...

Meanwhile, you can solve this particular problem by disabling stream-splitting on the origin server. This means you will have individual connections for all the client connections but reverse proxy would work. Do you want to give that a try? The way to disable stream splitting on origin server broadcast...

Hi Robert Currently, the server-side playlists don't work with shipped cache proxy plug-in. To make that work for you you will need to write your own plug-in. You can get more information on how to cache server side playlists with WMS here - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms739745(VS.85...

Hi, I have a customer evaluating Media Service proxy function of Windows Server 2008. While testing, we found a strange problem of media service proxy and wrapper playlist. In the setup, we have a Windows Server 2008 media service with a wrapper playlist contains a advertisement video and a live stream...

Hi Colin We do support anonymous authentication. It is set by enabling anonymous user on publishing point. In addition, we do support pass-through authentication (when using windows auth) or using a specific user account as anonymous user. You can try playing with authentication on each publishing point...

Hi Colin Thanks for the great feedback. WMS team got re-orged into IIS team around 6 -7 months ago and we are exploring ways of having media integrated into IIS. Bit Rate throtting module released on iis.net is the first set of many features to come along the same lines. Yes, we are pretty much done...

Hi Colin, Thanks for reaching us. I am a PM in the Windows Media Services team. Let me try to answer some of your questions Inconsistent setup behaviour - This was chosen to make it easier for someone downloading the admin package and save one extra step. Also, there is little bit of technical reason...