Hi Jason Could you please elaborate on the optional executable? What exactly are you referring to here. In the current release CTP1 of web playlists, the only way to create a dynamic playlist is by writing an isx file and serving. however, we are releasing CTP2 very soon that will allow you to write...

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...

We will be shipping modules throughout this year and next. We released Web Playlist CTP1 end of Feb. Watch out for more good things on the way :) http://blogs.iis.net/vsood/archive/2008/02/28/iis-7-media-pack-web-playlists-is-live.aspx

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 Everyone, We went live with Web Playlists CTP1. You can read about it in the blog post . Did anyone try it yet. Any thoughts? I would really love to hear initial feedback and and potentially any thoughts on how it helps you. Cheers Vishal

Hi, folks, Please try this new IIS Media landing page: http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=22 . -Chris

Are you interested in increasing the number of concurrent video downloads from your server? Better yet, are you interested in saving on your video download bandwidth costs? The new Bit Rate Throttling module, the first IIS7 Media Pack feature, provides these benefits and more! This module allows you...