SmoothStreaming is a video streaming format created by Microsoft. Use this tag to add questions related to creating and playing back these streams.
Questions tagged [smooth-streaming]
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Smooth Streaming Apple URL gives 404
I have followed the walkthroughs to make an IIS Smooth Streaming publishing point support Apple devices, but have run into a problem: the target URL for the
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Available encoder to IIS smooth streaming
I am trying to make a web site with IIS smooth streaming but all the tutorials and examples that I found use Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 pro. According to them only the pro version is capable of using H.264 compression. But the problem is…

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WinHttpReceiveResponse() always returns ERROR_INTERNET_INCORRECT_HANDLE_STATE
I'm trying to add WinHTTP authentication to my application. The application should connect to the IIS and stream some data. After sending some chunked data with the WinHttpWriteData() API (Transfer-Encoding: Chunked), I can see in network monitor…
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Azure - Preparing content for Smooth Streaming
After my encoding Azure task is done, I have a bunch of ISMV/ISMA files stored onto Azure blob. Now I want them to be available for Smooth Streaming.
How can I do that?
The articles I found in Internet say how to upload ISMV files from local PC onto…

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Guessing values in real time based on previous values
The following applies to c# .net 4. I am looking for a c# code.
(Figure 1) I have different values, for instance 700, 712, 703 and 720. dt1 is for instance 30ms, dt2 may be 9ms. What matters is that dt1 to dtn is not constant.
(Figure 2) The time…

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Unit Test Explorer in Visual Studio 11 fails with reference to the Microsoft Smooth Streaming Client SDK Beta 1 assembly
Having a reference to the Microsoft.Media.SmoothStreaming.dll in a Metro Style App project, then attempting to run tests from a separate Unit Test project that references the Metro Style App assembly does not work in Visual Studio 11 (Ultimate Beta…

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How to broadcast time-synchronized text streams using IIS Smooth Streaming?
I'm studying the feasibility of using IIS Smooth Streaming to build a rich web application to display time synchronized audio/video and related textual data. The text data is a set of spacecraft telemetry that should be displayed outside of the…

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Settings for Smooth Streaming paranoid CPU heuristics
I want my Smooth Streaming video to play very well on low-end devices. However, the default settings seem very optimistic and continuously retry to play a too-high quality level, resulting in a very bad playback experience.
I know that the…

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Load Testing video streaming HLS/MPEG-DASH/Smooth : What metrics do I need?
At my company we need to load test video streaming delivering Live and VOD.
Video are delivered following 3 encoding formats:
Apple HLS
MPEG-DASH
MS Smooth
We'd like to use Apache JMeter in order to do that.
We've found UbikLoadPack plugin which…

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UWP Windows 10 app - Smooth Streaming support
I am looking to port Silverlight app to UWP Windows 10 app. I read a lot of blogs saying it is possible to play Smooth Streaming videos in UWP, but as long as I can see - MediaElement and MediaPlayerElement support adaptive streaming but not Smooth…

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Live Smooth Streaming in IIS from webcam using FFMPEG
I'm trying to do a live stream of video captured by my webcam and host it on IIS using Live Smooth Streaming. Here are the steps I'm taking:
In the IIS manager's MIME Types add a new extension: .isml with type: application/atom+xml
In the IIS…

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Can't obtain information with ffmpeg from Smooth Streaming Manifest file
I'm trying to get details for a stream of protocol Microsoft Smooth Streaming, with ffmpeg tools (ffprobe and ffplay) but when I run the next command:
ffprobe -i http://b31282.cdn.telefonica.com/31282/Manifest
I obtain…

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Azure client manifest entry: n and r elements
While reviewing a client manifest provided by Azure Media Services for an HTTP Smooth Stream, I notice a new element (n) not found in previous IIS manifests and absent from Sam Zhang's blog.
According to previous manifests (clientManifestVersion…

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Select smooth streaming bitrate while playing csm-files
There are examples for switching bitrates: Load higher quality smooth streaming bitrate on start, IIS Smooth streaming low quality on start for SmoothStreamingMediaElement and SMFPlayer.
They work fine for .ism files. But they don't for .csm…

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Trick playing iis smooth streaming (.ism) in android
I'm developing a software which should play videos from Azure Media Service, which are in format .ism.
I know that this format isn't supported by standrard Android video player.
What is the most efficient way to trick this?
Videos could be more…

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