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Windows Server 2008 R2 Streaming Media Services

Digital Media Platform

Provides a platform for streaming digital media content to clients over networks.

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Overview

 
The Streaming Media Services role in the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system provides a platform for streaming digital media content to clients over networks.
 
The Streaming Media Services role also includes the following optional role services for managing a Windows Media server:
 
Web-based Administration
Provides support for remote web-based administration of a Windows Media server.
 
Logging Agent
Provides support for logging statistics from clients that receive multicast broadcast or advertising content from a Windows Media server.
 
What is a Windows Media server?
 
A Windows Media server streams digital audio and video content to clients over the Internet or an intranet. These clients can be other computers or devices that play back the content using a player, such as Windows Media Player, or other computers that are running Windows Media Services (called Windows Media servers) that proxy, cache, or redistribute the content. Clients can also be custom applications that have been developed by using the Windows Media SDK components.

Benefits

 
Windows Media server can stream live or a prerecorded digital media file. For live content, the server connects to encoding software, such as Microsoft Expression Encoder, that can broadcast a live stream in a format supported by the server.
 
Windows Media Services is a tool that can be especially useful to:
 
  • Hosting companies that deliver a fast-streaming experience to viewers in homes and offices
 
  • Enterprises that manage network resources while delivering rich communications for executive broadcasts, online learning, marketing, and sales
 
  • Wireless companies that deliver wireless broadband entertainment services by using scalable and reliable Windows Media servers
 
  • Internet broadcasters that deliver content for radio, television, cable, or satellite
 
  • Film and music distributors that distribute audio and video content in a secure manner without excessive buffering or network congestion
 
  • IPTV professionals that deliver a high-quality IPTV experience on local area networks (LANs)

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