Overview
This the GoLive Beta release for Web Playlists feature.
Web Playlists let you deliver server-controlled media playlists from your Web server infrastructure rather than using a dedicated streaming server. They enable you to control whether clients can Seek or Skip for each media asset, which lends itself very well to monetizing your content with pre-roll and in-stream ads.
Web Playlists also obfuscate the location of media assets from the end user, and prevent the end user from skipping pre-roll or in-stream advertising.
Features
- Integration with IIS 7.0. The Web Playlists module is tightly integrated with this new administration interface and configuration store in IIS 7.0. In addition, IIS 7.0 has a new administration tool, and the new Web Playlists module plugs seamlessly into that paradigm.
- Support for all Digital Media Files Types. Any digital media file type that can be downloaded from a Web server can be added to a Web playlists by using this feature.
- Session Provider Settings. Allows you to add ASP.NET session persistence and provides an additional level of control for the content on a Web server by configuring multiple options that specify how long the content referenced by a playlist is available to users.
- Session Settings. Allows you to specify the maximum number of clients that can connect to the playlist and the amount of content that must be watched before allowing a user to skip to the next item in the playlist.
- Impersonation Settings. Allows for media items that are protected by user credentials to be added to playlists.
- Client-Side Playlist Import. Allows for quick conversion of client-side playlists (files with .asx file name extensions) for files stored on the Web server to Web playlists.
- Content protection. The tokenized URLs secure the content through obfuscation
- Extensibility - Web Playlists now exposes an interface that enables you to create custom providers for custom needs. You can create a .net based or COM provider that implements any custom logic that may be needed.
- Nested Playlists - this feature allows you to add playlists in a nested fashion. This helps you make use of existing playlists inside others and allows better structuring of content.
- httpd Entries - This feature enables adding entries as that refer to a web application (asp page, aspx page or php page). The application can return the actual entry path / URL to be played. This allows integration with existing applications in the environment and adds another way to add dynamic entries
Benefits
- Any downloadable media file can be added to a Web Playlist and delivered to clients
- Full server control over content access, playlist sequence, and client Seek/Skip options
- Provides content protection through dynamically-generated tokenized URLs in each playlist
- Client-Side Playlist Import allows for quick conversion of ASX client-side playlists to Web playlists
- Works with Silverlight, Flash Player, Windows Media Player, and other ASX-capable media players
- Works across server farms by leveraging ASP.Net session persistence
- Fully integrated into the IIS 7.0 administration and configuration models
Requirements
To install and use the IIS7 Media Pack Web Playlists module:
- You need Windows Server 2008 system
- You must have administrative privileges on the Server
- Internet Information Services 7.0 must be installed: