IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta is out

The IIS Media team is moving fast. Last week the team announced the beta availability of the IIS Media Services 4.0. Media Services are an out-of-band release for IIS meaning you can install this as extensions to IIS without having to wait for a full OS upgrade.

I recommend you check out the blog post covering all the new stuff in this release: IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta is now available on Chris Knowlton's blog.

As a summary, here are main new features:

• An option that allows live adaptive streaming delivery to Apple devices. Check out the demo for iPhone.
• IIS Transform Manager (available as a version 1.0 Alpha release, along with an SDK) allows you to convert from another format into Smooth Streaming.
• IIS Smooth Streaming Client 1.0 RTW, used by the Silverlight Media Framework.
• Improved performance on Live Smooth Streaming.
• And there’s lots more to come in the next version.

You can download the beta for x64 or x86.

Give it a try!