Streaming Features
Smooth Streaming
Smooth Streaming enables uninterrupted streaming to Silverlight and other clients via HTTP, up to true HD (720p+). The quality level for each user seamlessly shifts as needed to adapt to changing bandwidth and playback conditions.
Playing Live
Live Smooth Streaming provides massive scalability, full DVR controls, and extended engagement times for PCs, Macs, set-top boxes, and mobile devices – now including support for Apple devices.
Full-Strength Player
Get started quickly using the Smooth Streaming Client, which supports DVR, DRM, H.264 & VC-1, multiple audio/video tracks, live ad insertion, and analytics.
Nice, Neat Package
Want to add Smooth Streaming or Protected Interoperable File Format output to your application or encoder? Use the Smooth Streaming Format SDK
Multicast
Combining traditional multicast with Smooth Streaming, Smooth Multicast provides best-quality end user experiences with low network overhead (coming soon!).
Convert with Ease
When you need to convert full media libraries or a steady flow of incoming files, let Transform Manager automate the job submission, scheduling, management, media transcoding, and encryption.
Analytics
Measure and then monetize your IIS-delivered media experiences with customizable client and server data, and share that in real-time with a third-party analytics service, using Advanced Logging.
Scale to the Edge
End users have a better experience when your Web and media content is close to them, so use Application Request Routing on your edge servers to provide proxying and disk-based edge caching.
Intelligent Progressive Downloads
Bit Rate Throttling increases scalability for progressive downloads while reducing bandwidth costs by intelligently detecting and metering media files.
Perfect Control
Server-based Web Playlists enable you to protect, personalize, and monetize your progressive download media assets across multiple media formats.