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How to Configure HTTP Proxy Settings for Publishing Point Push/Pull Connections
If you use push/pull connection feature on IIS Live Smooth Streaming publishing points, you might run into a problem where somehow those connections failed to be established even though the same URLs work fine from your desktop applications (say Expression Encoder). If your server is behind a HTTP proxy, there is a good chance that it’s caused by the lack of HTTP proxy setting for your IIS worker process. IIS worker process by default runs under a lower privileged account and is not able to pick up the Internet Connection settings from your desktop user. The way to fix this problem is to use “netsh” command to set a machine level HTTP proxy for WinHTTP which the publishing point uses for establish push/pull connections.
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New White Paper Released on The Performance Of Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP
Cisco and The Georgia Institute of Technology just released a technical white paper on adaptive streaming here. It has some very in-depth performance analysis and comparison between Smooth Streaming, Netflix player and Adobe’s OSMF. While there are some interesting findings about all three platforms, I think it clearly shows that Smooth Streaming is far more superior than Adobe’s OSMF’s default implementation in those tests.
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Vote for future IIS Media Services features!
Tell us what features you want to see in future IIS Media Services releases and we will try our best to make it happen!
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EventID support in Expression Encoder SP1
The newly released Expression Encoder SP1 now supports EventID feature to work with IIS Media Services for live smooth streaming publishing points. Jamie Lang from the Expression Encoder team wrote a nice blog about this support.