IIS Media Services 3.0, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, has been released!
We just released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging package.
So how did we get here? Well over the last 6 months key broadcasters have been using beta versions of IIS Media Services 3.0 to successfully broadcast some of the world’s premier live events. These include the Tour de France, Roland Garros 2009 International French Open Tennis Tournament, IAAF Athletics World Championships, FINA Swimming World Championships, FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009 as well as events such as the Michael Jackson Memorial. Also in a combined effort with Microsoft, NBC Sports and others, Wimbledon Live delivered more than 6,500 minutes of live and on-demand Smooth Streaming video via a high-definition (HD), interactive online video experience and each Sunday this Fall, NBC and Microsoft are broadcasting Sunday Night Football on-line in HD, utilizing live DVR controls, multiple camera angles, slow motion, ad integration, analytics, and other cutting-edge features. 26 such trial deployments are currently highlighted on the Smooth Streaming Showcase.
The components available are as follows
With this release, the key elements of the IIS media server platform now include:
· Smooth Streaming, adaptive streaming of media over HTTP
· Live Smooth Streaming, for live adaptive streaming of broadcast events
· Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, for creating custom clients
· Bit Rate Throttling, meters the speed that media is delivered to a player
· Web Playlists, secure sequencing of media content
· Advanced Logging, with real-time client- and server-side logging
· Application Request Routing (ARR), providing HTTP proxying and caching
Download the latest IIS Media offerings
You can download all of the IIS media server platform components, and the Smooth Streaming PDK, using the Web Platform Installer button on the IIS Media page (https://www.iis.net/media).