Thales' Blog

In a previous blog post I wrote about the sample application that comes with the IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK. One important feature missing in that sample is code showing how to do Live Smooth Streaming. The next release of the SDK will correct that and include a new sample application that supports live streaming, yet that release is not planned to hit MSDN in the next couple of months, and in the meanwhile users are facing difficulties trying to add the functionality to their encoders. On top of that the Application Workflow documentation for the Smooth Streaming Format SDK is a little vague on live streaming. In lieu of that I decided to write this blog post to elaborate on some of the details. This article assumes familiarity with the SDK’s workflow and HTTP.