Smooth Streaming Primer

IIS Media Services, an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform, delivers true HD (720p+) live and on-demand streaming, DVR functionality, and real-time analytics support to computers, TVs, and mobile devices. By offering a complete multi-format media delivery platform and a proven Web server, highly immersive websites can now be managed from a single Web platform: IIS.

Smooth Streaming, an IIS Media Services extension, enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight and other clients over HTTP. Smooth Streaming provides a high-quality viewing experience that scales massively on content distribution networks (CDNs), making true HD 1080p media experiences a reality.

Smooth Streaming is the productized version of technology first used by Microsoft to deliver on-demand video of the 2008 Summer Olympics for NBCOlympics.com. By dynamically monitoring both local bandwidth and video-rendering performance, Smooth Streaming optimizes content playback by switching video quality in real-time.

Contents

• About IIS Smooth Streaming
• About the Protected Interoperable File Format (PIFF)
• Creating PIFF Content
• Enabling PlayReady DRM with Smooth Streaming
• Setting Up IIS Origin Servers for Live & On-Demand Smooth Streaming
• Enabling Server & Encoder Failover for Live Smooth Streaming
• Building a Smooth Streaming Client with Silverlight
• Building a Smooth Streaming Client for Embedded Platforms without Silverlight
• Getting Started with Expression Encoder, IIS Media Services, and Smooth Streaming to Silverlight Clients
• Setting Up Smooth Streaming to Apple Devices
• About the End-to-End Setup for Sunday Night Football & Winter Olympics Events
• Comparing Smooth Streaming to Other Adaptive Streaming Technologies
• FAQs (Coming Soon!)

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