Chapter 5

Network Streaming with WM9

In this Chapter…

Environment Setup

A Modest Proposal

Standard On-Demand Streaming

Standard Broadcast Streaming (Encoder Pull)

Standard Broadcast Streaming (Encoder Push)

Multicast Streaming

Configuring the WM9 Encoder (Pull Mode)

Configuring the WM9 Encoder (Push Mode)

This chapter has “network streaming” in its title because it concentrates on video delivery using the WM9 Media Server—as opposed to posting WM9 files on web servers for progressive download. As noted in Chapter 2 (setup) and Chapter 8 (SDK components), the WM9 Server is not free like the Player and Encoder. It is packaged by Microsoft as part of the Windows Server 2003 family (formerly the .NET Server family), which the company hopes to sell ...

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