Contents tagged with Windows Media Services
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2010 French Open powered by IIS Live Smooth Streaming and Silverlight
Frances Télévisions and Eurosport have selected Silverlight and IIS Live Smooth Streaming to deliver online webcasting of the 2010 French Open at Roland Garros. This event, which runs through June 6, 2010, follows up on previous IIS Live Smooth Streaming successes that both Frances Télévisions and Eurosport have had with similar high-visibility events over the last year.
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Windows Media Services 2008 R2 released
I am pleased to announce the release of Windows Media Services (WMS) for Windows Server 2008 R2. Whether you are streaming content to Windows Media Player, Silverlight, or another Windows Media-compatible player, this latest release (WMS 2008 R2, for short) offers all of the great traditional Windows Media streaming features you have come to expect in WMS, and more.
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Overcoming the Challenges Enterprises Face with Streaming Video
On Thursday, December 10th, 2009, please join me for a free live Web broadcast on ways to use new and existing media technologies to solve video delivery challenges in the enterprise. If you are considering how to deploy high-quality live and on-demand video to an enterprise, this webcast is for you.
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Windows Media Services 2008 SP2
New builds of Windows Media Services 2008 that are compatible with Windows Server 2008 Service Pack (SP) 2 are now available. These packages will install on Windows Server 2008 SP1, SP2, and future Windows Server 2008 service packs. Please visit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ccf6312-723b-4577-be58-7caab2e1c5b7 to obtain the new builds.
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Windows Media Services 2008 R2 Release Candidate
Last week, we released an updated version of Windows Media Services (WMS) for Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate. Whether you are streaming content to Windows Media Player, Silverlight, or another Windows Media-compatible player, this latest release (WMS 2008 R2, for short) offers all of the great features you have come to expect in WMS, and more.
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Smooth Streaming – What, Why, When, Where, and How
Since we announced our new IIS Smooth Streaming extension last October with Akamai, we've been spending a lot of time engaging with very-interested customers and partners. In the course of these discussions, we hear a lot of frequently asked questions about Smooth Streaming, usually along these lines:
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Sourcing from a multicast broadcast using Windows Media Services
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:
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Delivering audio and video media with Windows Web Server 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 Pack, and Windows Media Services 2008 in a slimmed-down version of Windows Server 2008 to deliver media to the Internet. Whether you are a hoster building a Silverlight-enabled Web server farm, an enterprise administrator increasing your Web video capacity, or a small company putting up your first media server, Windows Web Server 2008 provides a great low-cost option for delivering your content.
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Microsoft at NAB
A number of us from Microsoft will be meeting with customers and staffing the booth at the NAB Show again this year, including folks who work on Windows Media Services 2008, IIS 7.0 Media Pack, Silverlight 2, Expression Studio 2, Interactive Media Manager, Windows HPC Server 2008, Windows Media Center, Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, and Microsoft Mediaroom, among others. We will also have many partners joining us to demonstrate their value-added solutions for Microsoft media technologies, including integrated support for Windows Media and the SMPTE standard VC-1 codec.
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Exciting media announcements at MIX08
There were many very cool announcements and demos during Scott Guthrie's portion of the MIX08 Day 1 Keynote, and media technologies related to Silverlight were key among them. One 15-minute segment on media included talking points on Windows Media Services 2008 (WMS), the IIS7 Media Pack, Bit Rate Throttling screen shots and client experience, and Web Playlists in an advertising demo.