Smooth Streaming FAQ
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Expression Encoder, H.264, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 1 Comment »The contents of this post have been moved to a new permanent location: http://alexzambelli.com/blog/smooth-streaming-faq/
Smooth Streaming Beta Released!
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 1 Comment »I am pleased to announce the availability of Smooth Streaming beta! The hot new media extension for IIS7 can now be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/extensions/SmoothStreaming, in both x86 and x64 flavors. The Smooth Streaming beta is also available for install through ...
Smooth Streaming Architecture
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in H.264, Internet Information Services, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 19 Comments »As described in the previous two posts, Smooth Streaming is Microsoft's implementation of HTTP-based adaptive streaming, which is a hybrid media delivery method. It acts like streaming, but is in fact based on HTTP progressive download. The HTTP downloads are performed ...
The Birth of Smooth Streaming
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Expression Encoder, Internet Information Services, Olympics, Silverlight, Smooth Streaming | 25 Comments »In my last post I talked about the history of multi-bitrate streaming and how we got from RTSP and HTTP streaming back to HTTP download as the primary media web distribution mechanism. In this post we'll take a closer look ...