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	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 Utilize in-stream ads, streaming banners, banner ads, and border ads in Windows Media Player.
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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.
Advertising Solutions: Download this white paper (213 KB 1 min @ 28.8 Kbps) to see how to embed Windows Media Player in Web pages.

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