Re: Possible AAC streaming in Windows Media Services 2008?

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:48:56 -0700, griffore@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Is AAC streaming possible using WMS 2008?

It's windows server 2008, not specifically windows media services
2008. I'm not aware of any major earth shattering changes to WMS in
the new version, and I imagine re-engineering it to support non ASF
format content would be a major job.

Flash streaming server (and the new flash 9 beta) suport AAC audio, so
it might be one route to consider.

Real player and Quicktime also support AAC audio natively, wheras with
WMP you'd need all your users to install the Orban plugin.

While that's not a major blocker (the plugin is stable and reliable)
obviously you need to consider why you'd choose WMS over another
possible solution such as the free Darwin Streaming Server for this if
you intend to support anything apart from WM Player + Plugin.


If not, has anyone been able to transcode AAC to WMA in realtime and
stream with WMS? What were the tools used steps taken?

I'll have to think about that, I can't think of a working solution
right now though.

Cheers - Neil
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