The technical articles available here cover a range of topics including encoding,
playback, digital cinema, and securing content with digital rights management.
Use the following categories to help you locate the article that meets your needs.
Learn more about creating Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media
Video (WMV) files, and discover techniques for encoding and publishing these files
on an intranet or Internet.
Building
a Windows Media Encoding Workstation Describes the optimal setup for an encoding workstation that
you can use to create high-quality Windows Media-based audio and video content.
Creating Your First Movie with Windows Movie Maker Provides an initial analysis of the appropriate video creation
tool to use for beginner moviemakers. This article then focuses on the Windows Movie
Maker 2.1 user interface and key features.
Introduction
to Windows Media Metafiles Describes how to use client-side metafiles with Windows Media
Player to provide metadata and playback instructions for digital media files.
Reducing Broadcast Delay Describes broadcast delay, and discusses how to minimize the
size of buffers in Windows Media technologies to reduce this delay.
Using the Windows Media Player 9 Series HTMLView Feature Describes the HTMLView feature in Windows Media Player 9 Series
that lets Internet content providers (ICPs) use the Now Playing feature of
Windows Media Player to display Web-based content while digital media content is
playing.
VC-1 Technical
Overview Provides an overview of VC-1 and details its status as an established
open standard. Comparative information is given to demonstrate how well VC-1 compares
to two other codecs in use today, H.264 and MPEG-2.
Get tips about hosting content on a Windows Media server or Web server, and learn
how to set up a streaming-media system.
Caching and proxying
content with Windows Media Services Describes how to use Windows Media Services to configure your
Windows Media server as either an origin server or as a cache/proxy server to conserve
bandwidth, decrease network-imposed latency, and offset the load on the origin server
on your network.
Delivering IPTV with the Windows Media Platform Describes how the Windows Media platform can be used to deliver
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Logging Model for Windows Media Services Provides a technical overview of logging in Windows Media Services.
The information in this article supplements the information covered in Windows Media
Services Help and the Windows Media Services Software Development Kit (SDK).
Optimizing Windows
Media Services This article describes performance tests that were recently
conducted in a controlled lab environment and includes tuning recommendations that
will help you to achieve optimal performance from your Windows Media server.
Sourcing Content from Remote Storage Describes remote storage solutions that you can use for the
content hosted on a server running Windows Media Services.
Using URL Modifiers Describes how to use URL modifiers to control how players and
distribution servers receive a stream and how to increase the reliability of a live
stream by using URL modifiers in the path to the primary encoder.
Windows Media Services Deployment Guide This guide describes the practical application and deployment
of Windows Media Services in the enterprise for digital media experiences and applications.
This guide is intended to help IT professionals take a Windows Media server solution
from planning through implementation in a production environment.
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