CHAPTER 1
Windows Media Quick Start
You need to get up to speed as quickly as possible on the basics of streaming media and Windows Media Series. Maybe you’re on a tight deadline or you have to learn this stuff in between 63 other projects that were due yesterday. You’ve come to the right place!
This chapter walks you step-by-step through a number of important installations. By the time you’re finished, you’ll be streaming a video file. Just to make things extra fast, the instructions assume that most default settings, automatically set by the installer, work for you. However, for this chapter to make sense, the text makes a number of further assumptions:
• You have a source audio or video file in a “raw” format, that is, a file with the ...
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