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January 09, 2006
On-Demand and Live Streaming with Windows Media Services
Microsoft's Windows Media Services provides users the opportunity to provide Live and On-Demand streams. Windows Media Services is the Streaming Server for the Microsoft platform and is a part of the Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter Editions. Windows Media Services provides some awesome features that make your deployment of video streaming content exceptional and worthwhile.
Here are some of the features of Windows Media Services:
-Video Playlist Creation
-Ad Insertion
-Live Streaming from Remote Locations
-Push and Pull Distribution
-Real-time Reporting
-Server Log Creation
-Publishing Point Wizards
-Set limits for amount of streams
Windows Media Services is a feature rich Streaming Server and also allows account managers the ability to set up on-demand publishing points and live streaming publishing points. The Streaming Server does not charge users for the number of unicast streams that it provides (The amount of streams possible is based on bandwidth availability). What is great about the Windows Media Services is that you can see in real-time how many users are viewing your Streams. Statistics are also available about your streaming visitors by enabling the WMS Client Logging feature. Windows Media Services works hand-in-hand with Windows Media Encoder for Live and On-Demand streaming. The Windows Media Encoder software is free from the Microsoft website.
Learn more about the Windows Media Services Streaming Server.
Get details on the Free Windows Media Encoder software.
Posted by MovingPicture at January 9, 2006 05:05 PM