Monthly Archives: February 2009

Smooth Streaming FAQ

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

The contents of this post have been moved to a new permanent location: http://alexzambelli.com/blog/smooth-streaming-faq/

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Smooth Streaming Beta Released!

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 … Continue reading →

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Smooth Streaming Architecture

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Smooth Streaming

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Alex Zambelli

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 … Continue reading →

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