Re: Help Needed to Startup Streaming ...

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You may not (necessarily) need to run the streaming service per-se.

It's true that until recently, web servers weren't easy to configure
to handle streaming media - or specifically they had few features to
allow for partial streaming (about the only concession was byte-range
serving for example)

The IIS media pack http://www.iis.net/media has recently been
improved, and has several features including a simulated adaptive
streaming mode where bitrate is ramped up by stream-switching
progressively creating a sharper higher bitrate video from an initial
slow-start.

That was used during the 2008 olympics on the NBC site, streaming to
Silverlight players - though only to USA audiences (so I didn't get to
try it)

There are other media-server like features too, such as "web
playlists", which mimic some of the capabilities of WSX playlists,
though not in as much depth (or without some coding)


For flash video, similar improvements have been made - Lighttpd for
example has a FLV Streaming module, which allows for file-seeks by
players without running a traditional media server.

Back to your question - sure - you can run WMS and IIS on the same
server - the most reliable (less error prone) method is to bind IIS to
one IP address, and WMS to another - you can do this either on the
same network card using windows network config - or on two separate
internet facing NICs in the same machine :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328728

WMS is slightly easier IMO to configure to use a different IP : check
the section under "WMS HTTP Server Control Protocol" on that page.

Since you have IIS7, that article was updated with more info here :
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/507/using-http-for-streaming-and-downloading-from-the-same-computer/

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:11:01 -0800, Dave
<Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I hope i'm in the correct forum.

I need help in starting up a streaming system.

I already have 2 Windows Server 2008 systems hosting IIS7 websites.

I'd like to add streaming capabilities using Windows Media Player.

I read that using Windows Media Server is better than using a Web Server.
The question is, i already have Web Servers running and I don't want to
change their configuration.
Is it possible, or maybe this is how its done, to put a seperate Windows
Media Server on the same network at the 2 Windows Web Servers i have, then on
the web pages, create a link that points to the file/etc on the Media Server?

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can get a streaming system setup with
my already running web servers please write!

Thanks!
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http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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