Jul 14, 2008
A few folks have recently had questions about how to do sourcing of a video stream when using multicast with Windows Media Services (WMS). There are two basic scenarios that we often see: Unicast edge server sourcing from a multicast broadcast on an origin...
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Filed under: media, windows media services
May 01, 2008
Managing Service Quality There are many situations under which we would like to impose limits to file serving speed and the number of clients served. For example, a large rogue media file with a huge (faked) bit rate may induce unfair server bandwidth...
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Filed under: BRT, Bit Rate Throttling, IIS, Bandwidth, Bit Rate, Media Pack, Media
May 01, 2008
Web Playlists! CTP2 been out there for a little more than a week now and some of you simply love it. Others, I am sure love it but I just don't know about that. Some others wonder how it works and the documentation available is a drop in the ocean. Firstly...
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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
Apr 29, 2008
Questions from customers on the floor of the NAB 2008 Show underscored again for me that many customers are interested in delivering digital media with Windows Web Server 2008 . Why? Because for $469, you can get the power of IIS 7.0 , the new IIS Media...
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Filed under: media, windows media services, silverlight, Media Pack, IIS Media Pack
Apr 29, 2008
If you read my post / walkthroughs you probably know about the extensibility interface shipped with CTP2. You can use that to integrate into existing business logic applications or web applications. However, in this post I am going to talk about a shortcut...
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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack
Apr 22, 2008
Bit Rate Throttling is the first IIS extension module released in IIS Media Pack. It adds to IIS the capability of per-response bandwidth control for the delivery of media and data contents. The idea for this module initially grew out of the need to serve...
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Filed under: BRT, Bit Rate Throttling, IIS, Bandwidth, Bit Rate, Media Pack, Media
Apr 22, 2008
Bit Rate Throttling was Brian's pick of the week on channel 9. We love you Brian :) Here is the link to video and the post on the site - Click (To see the relevant section in the video seek to around 16:28 into the video.) Here is the excerpt from the...
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Filed under: Media, Bit Rate Throttling, IIS Media Pack
Apr 22, 2008
In my blog post yesterday I mentioned that we will be releasing sample code written by our teams as reference. Here is the first one. Prakash blogged about a custom provider that provides a wrapper playlist like functionality through a simple playlist...
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Filed under: Media, Web Playlists, IIS Media Pack