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Media and Entertainment Content Distribution on the Web Media and Entertainment Content Distribution on the Web
Discusses the challenges that media and entertainment-industry content providers face when delivering content to the Web, and highlights the features of the Windows Media 9 Series platform that provide.
Streaming Advertising Streaming Advertising
Utilize in-stream ads, streaming banners, banner ads, and border ads in Windows Media Player.
Technical articles
Creating an Internet Radio Station
See how Internet radio offers greater possibilities, simply and with relatively little expense, than traditional radio broadcasting.
Reducing Broadcast Delay
Describes broadcast delay, and discusses how to minimize the size of buffers in Windows Media technologies to reduce this delay.
Tips and Tricks for Encoding Long Format Content with Windows Media Encoder
Explains how to use Windows Media Encoder to encode high-quality masters for both online streaming and download-and-play scenarios. This article also includes steps that you can take before encoding to ensure that the encoding process fits seamlessly with your existing video-production processes.
Building a Windows Media Encoding Workstation
Learn to build an encoding workstation to capture and play high-bandwidth video.
Web Server vs. Streaming Server
Compare the two primary methods of delivering streaming media: a standard Web server and a specialized streaming server.
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Case studies
PTV
PTV streams British soccer content using Windows Media.
SmartJog
SmartJog offers content-distribution service to broadcasters
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