More ways to serve media

Media and data delivery is easier than ever with media serving extensions which offer you unprecedented control over how content is streamed to users. See the Integrated Media Platform page for more information.

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Bit Rate Throttling

June 10, 2010

The Bit Rate Throttling module provides Fast Start and bandwidth throttling capabilities for progressive downloada of media and data files. This feature can reduce bandwidth costs while increasing per-server capacity for concurrent download connections. It can also provide dynamic throttling to split bandwidth across all users.

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Live Smooth Streaming

June 10, 2010

Live Smooth Streaming enables adaptive streaming of live events with full DVR capabilities to Silverlight, Apple devices, and other clients. It takes advantage of the scale of existing HTTP caching networks to make true HD (720p+) a reality for live Web broadcasts while significantly increasing live event availability.

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Smooth Streaming

June 10, 2010

Smooth Streaming enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight, Apple devices, and other clients over HTTP. Smooth Streaming provides a high-quality viewing experience that scales massively on content delivery networks (CDNs), making true HD media experiences (720p+) a reality.

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Smooth Streaming Client

June 10, 2010

The IIS Smooth Streaming Client provides enables developers and designers to build rich Smooth Streaming player experiences using a .NET-Framework-based SDK for Silverlight, with full XAML support. Features include a broad range of media controls, such as Instant Replay, Live Ad Insertion, Multiple Camera Angles, and FF/REW.

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Smooth Streaming Format SDK

June 10, 2010

The IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK 1.0 Beta provides documentation, tools, and samples you can use to create software programs that package encoded video and audio bitstreams for on-demand and live Smooth Streaming scenarios. In addition, the SDK supports the encryption of content using Microsoft PlayReady DRM.

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Transform Manager

June 10, 2010

Transform Manager provides simple, integrated video encoding and batch conversion of video files to the IIS Smooth Streaming (PIFF) format as well as the HTTP adaptive streaming format supported by Apple devices. It provides Watch folders, task-chaining, and the ability to create custom media workflow tasks.

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Web Playlists

June 10, 2010

Web Playlists provide developers and hosters unprecedented control of how media content is delivered to users. Customization features make it possible to monetize media delivery by inserting in-stream or pre-roll video ads and dynamically determining which content should be delivered based on session history and server-side rules.

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Windows Media Services 2008

February 4, 2008

Windows Media Services 2008 is an industrial-strength platform for streaming live or on-demand audio and video content to clients over the Internet or a private network. Whether you are streaming content to millions of simultaneous users via a CDN, or to thousands of workers in your company, scalability, and affordability you need.