Technical Resources

Includes sections for IIS Live Smooth Streaming, IIS Smooth Streaming, IIS Bit Rate Throttling, and IIS Web Playlists).

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IIS Transform Manager 1.0 Beta is an extensible media transform engine that enables "watch folder" job submission, queuing, management, integrated media transcoding/transmuxing, and batch-encryption of on-demand audio and video files.

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IIS Smooth Streaming Client enables you to build rich on-demand and live Smooth Streaming experiences for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 applications that take full advantage of the capabilities of the Smooth Streaming features in IIS Media Services.

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The package makes it easy for authorized developers to wrap encoded video and audio bitstreams into fragmented-MP4 (f-MP4) formats that conform to Smooth Streaming requirements.

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IIS Advanced Logging is an extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 that provides enhanced data collection and real-time server and client-side logging capabilities. It supports complex Web and media delivery scenarios that demand flexibility and control.

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Use Expression Encoder to create a media file that is optimized for Smooth Streaming playback and embed the media file in a Silverlight player template.

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Enable Smooth Streaming video playback, with basic controls such as Play, Pause, and Stop, in a Silverlight-enabled Web browser.

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Use the Smooth Streaming Client APIs to implement advanced Smooth Streaming playback scenarios in Silverlight applications.

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Create an HTML 5 page that can be used by iPhone and iPad devices to play Smooth Streams.

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Use Expression Encoder to create a media file that is optimized for Smooth Streaming playback and embed the media file in a Silverlight player template.

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Use Expression Encoder to edit digital media sources and encode them as Smooth Streams that are compatible with VC-1 or H.264 codecs, without using Silverlight player templates.

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Create Smooth Streams for Apple mobile digital devices.

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Create Smooth Streams for Silverlight clients on Windows Phone 7 devices.

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Use the sample muxing application in the Smooth Streaming Format SDK to generate on-demand Smooth Streams and manifests from media files encoded in WMA, WMV/VC-1, H.264, or AAC-LC formats.

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Use sample code in this blog post with the Smooth Streaming Format SDK to add live Smooth Streaming functionality to encoders.

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Create software programs that package encoded audio and video bitstreams for on-demand Smooth Streaming scenarios.

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Use Expression Encoder to create a live Smooth Streaming broadcast from live and file-based sources.

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Create a live Smooth Streaming broadcast for Apple mobile digital devices.

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Convert media files to Smooth Streams for Silverlight clients and Apple devices.

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Configure your Live Smooth Streaming encoder for network resiliency.

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Create server-controlled sequences of digital media content and prevent caching of the content on client computers.

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Create server-side versions of Windows Media Player client-side playlist (.wpl) files.

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Encrypt on-demand and live Smooth Streams for Silverlight clients by using PlayReady Digital Rights Management (DRM).

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Configure a Web server to deliver on-demand Smooth Streams to Silverlight clients on desktop computers and mobile devices (including Windows Phone 7).

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Trim steams from on-demand Smooth Streaming presentations to save bandwidth, or to make different streams in the presentation available to various audience segments.

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Get up-and-running quickly by deploying a sample Smooth Streaming player for live Smooth Streaming playback.

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Configure a Web server to deliver on-demand Smooth Streams to Apple mobile digital devices.

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Convert media files to Smooth Streams for Silverlight clients and Apple devices.

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Configure a Web server to deliver live Smooth Streams to Apple mobile digital devices.

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Configure encoders for failover and redundancy in order to guarantee delivery of streams.

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Configure your Live Smooth Streaming encoder for network resiliency.

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Use edge-caching features in IIS Application Request Routing in order to increase scalability, save money, and improve user experiences when delivering audio and video.

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View stream, track, and connection information exposed by Runtime Status and Control (RSCA) APIs and leverage this information for troubleshooting purposes.

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Configure properties in Live Smooth Streaming publishing point definition (.isml) files for advanced streaming scenarios (for example, configuring publishing point auto-restart).

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Reduce network costs by metering the download speed of media and data files.

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Create server-controlled sequences of digital media content and prevent caching of the content on client computers.

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Create server-side versions of Windows Media Player client-side playlist (.wpl) files.

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Learn about HTTP errors and Web server troubleshooting techniques in IIS 7.

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Record failed requests in log files for later analysis.

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Analyze the HTTP traffic between clients and IIS Media servers

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Sam Zhang provides troubleshooting guidance for live Smooth Streaming in the following collection of blog posts:

• Part 1 (Basics)
  Reviews the basic design of IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the protocols that are used.
• Part 2 (Publishing Point UI and States)
  Reviews the diagnostic information that is available in the IIS Live Smooth Streaming user interface.
• Part 3 (Event Logs)
  Reviews the IIS Live Smooth Streaming event logs in Event Viewer.
• Part 4 (Performance Counters)
  Reviews the performance counters in Performance Monitor for tracking live Smooth Streaming status.
• Part 5 (Client Manifest)
  Describes the information in client manifest (.ismc) files that you can use for troubleshooting.
• Part 6 (IIS Logs and Others)
  Describes how to gather Smooth Streaming client request information and response codes in logs and how to parse and analyze the data.
• Part 7 (Putting It Together)
  Provides a "real-world" troubleshooting example.

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