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Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Live Smooth Streaming using IIS


Just recently somebody asked me how to make a clone of YouTube.. At that time I didn't have much idea about that but i knew that the architecture can be to create a service in WCF service that supports live streaming using MTOM and have a Silverlight or Asp.Net client which will show the streams to the user on demand. But showing live streaming is much more just playing videos on the web.. It's about DRM as well since you just can't play any video which you are not authorized to play and you could be booked for copyright infringement if you do so..
Another important is right codecs to display the stream correctly so as you can already see it's a lot of work and not just any work..

While answering a question on asp.net site i came across a similar question and when i dig deep into it I came up with something unknown for as well as so powerful that it can really rock you to the hilt...

Here is the link exploring the untapped powers of IIS as well as some of the newer kids on the block ( Silverlight, Expression web)...

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/620/getting-started-with-iis-live-smooth-streaming/

What more you can support LIVE streaming ...

Dig deep and let me know how you would like this blog post...

And Last but not least..Any issues just drop me an email or leave a comment... Obliged to help..

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