Questions tagged [smooth-streaming]
SmoothStreaming is a video streaming format created by Microsoft. Use this tag to add questions related to creating and playing back these streams.
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How to make a composite manifest for Microsoft smooth streaming
I am new to Microsoft Smooth Streaming and have questions about the making of composite manifests.
Following the guidance from here.
I was able to make a composite manifest of a single clip element ...
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How to download IIS smooth streaming (ISM) as MKV or AVI?
There is an audio+video stream in IIS smooth streaming (ISM) format available via HTTP. The .ism/manifest file looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<SmoothStreamingMedia ...
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How to play H264 stream with SilverLight?
I have an H264 stream (IIS - smooth streaming) that I would like to play with SilverLight. Apparently SilverLight can do it, but how?
Note: the VC-1 stream can be played by the SilverLight, but H264 ...
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Rebuilding MP4 file from fragmented MP4 "mdat" atom?
I'm trying to rebuild a video file from a Smooth Streaming server. Smooth Streaming serves fMP4 files which are regular MP4 files without neither their FTYP nor their MOOV atoms.
All the informations ...
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Samsung Smart TV, PlayDRM and HLS
We use in our applications for Samsung Smart TVs either the Apple HLS or progressive download for getting/playing the video. We would like to move to the DRM protected content and we saw in the SDK ...
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SmoothStreamingMediaElement.Play() - Exception thrown but player starts
When I set my SmoothStreamingSource and then call .Play() I get the following exception...
"Play is not allowed when there is no source set."
The odd thing, is that if I handle this exception (shown ...
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How to play smooth streaming video in Chromecast?
According the Chromecast Developers page, Chromecast supports the SmoothStreaming container, which I believe uses video chunks with the .ismv extension. I am having problems getting those video files ...
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How to find SPS and PPS string in H264 codec from mp4
As you all know that in Smooth Stream client manifest file, contains a "CodecPrivateData" attribute in video tag. Now after my initial investigation I found that this string is formed by using SPS and ...
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Splitting mp4 files vs mp4-dash
While serving video to users on website there were few options to choose from. Namely HLS, Smooth streaming, Dash or HDS. Dash seemed to be a better choice. Looking at how it works is that it splits ...
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Smooth streaming - How does silverlight choose default language track in multi audio manifest
I have a smooth stream source with English and Spanish audio tracks.
When player starts playing - English is the default language.
How does it get set which is the default audio language track?
A few ...
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Wowza + Live Streaming + Windows Phones?
I'm newbie in Live Streaming logics but I now have a Wowza backended setup and i got following streams out from server:
http://.................../mychannel/playlist.m3u8
http://.................../...
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Objective-C Download a Smooth Streaming Video
I am wondering if there is a way with Objective-C to download a mp4 video that is setup to stream in a Smooth Streaming format. So far I have tried AFNetworking, NSInputStream, and ...
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Smooth Streaming .ism to an HTML5 video tag
I understand that the best bet when streaming a video as a source in an HTML5 tag would be .mp4. But let's say that I have a source that only outputs fragmented to an ism/manifest.
Is there any way ...
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Example public live stream for IIS smooth streaming
I'm interested in a publicly available live stream (with IsLive=true in the manifest file) in the IIS smooth streaming format. The content doesn't matter. I'd like to test some software if it supports ...
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how to encrypt Smooth Streaming with PlayReady
I am trying to develop an encryption tools that takes clear Smooth Streaming files and encrypt them with PlayReady DRM.
The only solution I found is using IIS Transform Manager.
My problem is that I ...
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Azure Media Services Shared Access Policy limitations
I'm trying to create time-limited URL's for smooth streaming of media stored in Azure Media Services.
I am working against the code supplied here.
Windows Azure Smooth Streaming example
I upload a ...
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RTP to Live Smooth Streaming
I have a RTP video stream that I want to send to a set-top box. Unfortunately, the set-top box doesn't support RTP and I have convert it to Smooth Streaming.
I've tried using Wowza Media Server to ...
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HLS over IIS with Smooth Streaming Format SDK
I'm trying to run HLS over IIS and Smooth Streaming via Silverlight works fine but not HLS.
What I have:
New Live Smooth Streaming Publishing Point with HLS support enabled;
Connected Publishing ...
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Is it actually possible to play SmoothStreaming videos on Chromecast without using (format=mpd-time-csf)?
I'm trying to get a video playing on Chromecast - it's available as an MS Smooth Streaming manifest (example), but I can't specify format=mpd-time-csf (example), as it's not available in that format.
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Recommend a Server Side Media Encoder or SDK [closed]
I'm writing a video on demand solution. I want to take care of the end to end process, from ingestion of content to playback.
I have decided to utilise IIS Smooth Streaming for the method of ...
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Is there a free PlayReady server available?
I am trying to do an experiment with encrypted Microsoft smooth streaming streams.
And i have a IIS server with transform manager installed. However, i wonder is there a free PlayReady server ...
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Does IIS support CEA-608 closed captions transformation?
I use IIS Smooth Streaming (.isml) stuff to deliver video stream to Silverlight plugin and to IOS devices by IIS HLS re-encoding "on fly". Also I send "Closed Captions" to live stream - it works fine ...
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ffmpeg and iis smooth streaming
I have a local iis instance with configured publishing point. The point is good I've tested it by Expression Encoder 4 Pro IIS smooth streaming feature.
But when I'm trying to stream to is using ...
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How to create a video on-demand solution based on IIS?
I went to the IIS Media services website and got lost with all the good features they have there. What I need is to offer video on-demand (streaming off course) with these features:
Adaptive ...
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How do I generate the .ism and .ismc with FFmpeg
I'm trying to set up a service that will output .ismv files for smooth streaming.
Currently I'm using the following command to start the transcode:
ffmpeg.exe -i <infile> -movflags ...
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Azure - Preparing content for Smooth Streaming
After my encoding Azure task is done, I have a bunch of ISMV/ISMA files stored onto Azure blob. Now I want them to be available for Smooth Streaming.
How can I do that?
The articles I found in ...
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Smooth Streaming Codec Private Data
When I add a new SSF_STREAM_INFO into the SSF SDK muxer, the header data that is produced doesn't seem to contain a proper value for CodecPrivateData param.
<param name="CodecPrivateData" value="...
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Smooth Streaming Apple URL gives 404
I have followed the walkthroughs to make an IIS Smooth Streaming publishing point support Apple devices, but have run into a problem: the target URL for the <video> tag generates a 404 response.
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DFXP caption files to ismt smooth streaming format
I have some DFXP caption files that I need to convert to ismt files for playout using microsoft smooth streaming.
Does anyone know how I can get these files converted without using expression ...
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Playing ogg voices as smoothly as possible in Java - TTS application
I am developing a text-to-speech (TTS) for my own language in Java (its a final project which has not been developed before, therefore I cannot use built-in classes).
I can recognize the diphones for ...
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Failed to resolve: com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-smoothstreaming:2.6.1
I have a problem to build a expo detached project in android. When i build the project, the output from console build says: Failed to resolve: com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-smoothstreaming:2....
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Ffmpeg iis smooth streaming credentials
I use ffmpeg to stream live video to IIS publishing point by this command
ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="video device name":audio="audio device name" -pix_fmt yuv420p -f ismv http://localhost/test.isml
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Available encoder to IIS smooth streaming
I am trying to make a web site with IIS smooth streaming but all the tutorials and examples that I found use Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 pro. According to them only the pro version is capable of ...
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WinHttpReceiveResponse() always returns ERROR_INTERNET_INCORRECT_HANDLE_STATE
I'm trying to add WinHTTP authentication to my application. The application should connect to the IIS and stream some data. After sending some chunked data with the WinHttpWriteData() API (Transfer-...
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Guessing values in real time based on previous values
The following applies to c# .net 4. I am looking for a c# code.
(Figure 1) I have different values, for instance 700, 712, 703 and 720. dt1 is for instance 30ms, dt2 may be 9ms. What matters is that ...
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Unit Test Explorer in Visual Studio 11 fails with reference to the Microsoft Smooth Streaming Client SDK Beta 1 assembly
Having a reference to the Microsoft.Media.SmoothStreaming.dll in a Metro Style App project, then attempting to run tests from a separate Unit Test project that references the Metro Style App assembly ...
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Smooth Streaming Player - Multi Audio Track - H.264 SmoothStreams
I am trying develop a silverlight player based on SmoothStreamingMediaElement.
For Ref:
SSME:SmoothStreamingMediaElement Grid.Row="2" x:Name="medSmooth" AutoPlay="True" MinWidth="320" MinHeight="240""
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Load Testing video streaming HLS/MPEG-DASH/Smooth : What metrics do I need? [closed]
At my company we need to load test video streaming delivering Live and VOD.
Video are delivered following 3 encoding formats:
Apple HLS
MPEG-DASH
MS Smooth
We'd like to use Apache JMeter in order ...
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Chromecast support for Smooth Streaming with PlayReady
I'm aware that developer-preview of Chromecast receiver does not fully support Smooth Streaming manifest URL (See Update#1).
I have tested content provided by Microsoft PlayReady(TM) Test Server - ...
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Load higher quality smooth streaming bitrate on start
Is it possible to adjust the way in which smooth streaming xap bitrate is first started? As it is right now, the player shows a low quality stream until is has buffered the higher quality. Can I ...
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Windows 8 tablet streaming support
Does anyone know which video streaming delivery methods will be supported natively and within metro style apps on Windows 8 tablets (and also Windows Phone 8)?
I am hoping one of the following will ...
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smooth streaming in html5
Is there a way to a play video in html5 player using smooth streaming?? I have a requirement of playing Playready Drm protected videos....I tried using the Dash player , using this link
http://ie....
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Where to put 64-bit IV in 128-bit counter block for AES-128 CTR mode, in PIFF format
The documents just don't seem to provide an answer..
Microsoft tried to explain the subject clearly, but it is still ambiguous. At least in our case.
We have an encrypted MP4 stream. It contains "...
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Get Thumbnail from a smooth streaming file (.ism)
Does any body know how to get a thumbnail/snapshot of a specific frame of a smooth streaming file using C#.net and WPF.
Regards,
Allan
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UWP Windows 10 app - Smooth Streaming support
I am looking to port Silverlight app to UWP Windows 10 app. I read a lot of blogs saying it is possible to play Smooth Streaming videos in UWP, but as long as I can see - MediaElement and ...
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Trick playing iis smooth streaming (.ism) in android
I'm developing a software which should play videos from Azure Media Service, which are in format .ism.
I know that this format isn't supported by standrard Android video player.
What is the most ...
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Chromecast sender as a PlayReady license provider
Let's assume we have an encrypted stream (SmoothStreaming + Playready) and a custom receiver build on googlecast/cast-custom-receiver.
I can see that device tries to get the license from the LA_URL (...
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Encoding videos for web and mobile using Azure Media Services
I'm using Azure Media Services to encode adaptive videos that need to be seen in web (I'm using Smooth Streaming for this) and in both iOS and Android (and I'm using HLS for both). In the Azure ...
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Smooth streaming + Playready together on Windows 8 application
I am trying my hands on Windows 8 Application development and was trying for Playready and Smooth streaming. There are sample applications available which explain on how to implement smooth streaming ...
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How to play videos using Smooth Streaming media element
I want to stream a video file in my windows phone application.. After i have researched, the smooth streaming media element would do this, I believe. but when im assigning the SmoothStreamingSource to ...
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