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How to do network auto-recovery from Expression Encoder 4?
If you use Expression Encoder 4 for live smooth streaming, you probably have already hit this situation a few times. Say you’ve set up your live encoder to push to a remote publishing point on an IIS Media server and everything is running fine. All of a sudden, somehow the network connection between your encoding facility and the remote IIS ingest servers gets broken. Because today Expression Encoder 4 does not support network auto-recovery, even if the network gets back to normal, Expression Encoder will still show the error message while the remote publishing point keeps waiting for failover streams. The end result is that the live streaming has to stop. And the only way to fix that problem would be to restart everything (encoders, servers and clients) which also means the clients would lose access to all the DVR data that belongs to the previous session.