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 in html5
Is there a way to a play video in html5 player using smooth streaming?? I have a requirement of playing Playready Drm protected videos....I tried using the Dash player , using this link
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/eme/ however unlike…

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Audio track switching impossible with MPL 0.7.0 and smoothstream protocol
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. On mediaManager loadData, stream info (audio) is sent to sender.
2. Selected audio track index is sent back to receiver.
3. Receiver disables the existing audio stream and enables the new selected audio…

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Microsoft SmoothStreaming video on Apache?
I created what I consider to be a valid smooth streaming output using ffmpeg with the smooth streaming muxer and also alternatively through the ismindex utility (included in ffmpeg sources).
I'm trying to use an standard web server like Apache…

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Where to put 64-bit IV in 128-bit counter block for AES-128 CTR mode, in PIFF format
The documents just don't seem to provide an answer..
Microsoft tried to explain the subject clearly, but it is still ambiguous. At least in our case.
We have an encrypted MP4 stream. It contains "SampleEncryptionBox"es or "PIFF" boxes, which contain…

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Chromecast sender as a PlayReady license provider
Let's assume we have an encrypted stream (SmoothStreaming + Playready) and a custom receiver build on googlecast/cast-custom-receiver.
I can see that device tries to get the license from the LA_URL (license acquisition URL) - extracted from stream…

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Google Cast Media Player : Interpretation of url in smooth streaming manifest after redirect
I'm using //developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/player/ version 0.5
I'm trying to use smoothstreaming on a chromecast device.
When fetching the manifest, the server does a redirect (http 302 with Location header)
E.g. from…

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Chromecast add TTML URL to Smooth Stream manifest
I want to update the SmoothStreaming chromecast player with a TTML captions URL in my receiver application.
My manifest file does not contain this URL from the start, so I need to add it with:
cast.player.enableCaptions(true, 'ttml',…

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Google Chromecast: why smooth streaming LIVE drives the application to a "LOAD_FAILED" media error?
I need some help in understanding what in my Chromecast Javascript application is going wrong.
My goal is to cast a LIVE through an isml format and manage its reproduction via Chromecast developer library.
When I try to play the live content I…

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Chromecast support for Smooth Streaming with PlayReady
I'm aware that developer-preview of Chromecast receiver does not fully support Smooth Streaming manifest URL (See Update#1).
I have tested content provided by Microsoft PlayReady(TM) Test Server - Smooth Streaming assets using sample receiver app…

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Encoding videos for web and mobile using Azure Media Services
I'm using Azure Media Services to encode adaptive videos that need to be seen in web (I'm using Smooth Streaming for this) and in both iOS and Android (and I'm using HLS for both). In the Azure documentation are presets for encoding to Smooth…

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Sending some non-encrypted fragments in a PlayReady stream
I have a PlayReady protected Smooth Stream, which I encrypt manually (by adding the Protection element to the client manifest, adding a Sample Encryption Box inside each fragment's traf box and encrypting the actual mdat payload).
I am trying to…

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How to create dynamic IIS Web Playlists using C# and ASP.NET?
I am trying to create a web playlist that can be played from remotely with clients like VLC or Windows Media Player. I've seen the resources at http://www.iis.net/learn/media/web-playlists It talks about managing playlists via the IIS interface.
Is…

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Creating and Streaming a composite manifest file in Windows Azure
I'm currenly developing an application using Windows Azure Media Services for video processing.
The scenario is: a user manages a sequence of video clips, puts them in a specific order and submits them to Media Services for processing.
I managed to…

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Silverlight MediaElement Bitrate
I'm developing a custom player (s) for Silverlight, one based with MediaElement and other with SmootStreamingMediaElement. For the moment I'm using the latest version of the SDK 5.0 but I would like to support previous versions once all my issues…

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Load higher quality smooth streaming bitrate on start
Is it possible to adjust the way in which smooth streaming xap bitrate is first started? As it is right now, the player shows a low quality stream until is has buffered the higher quality. Can I change this to allow for the higher quality on start?…
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