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streamingguy's avatar
streamingguy
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14 years ago

Is anybody using IIS Media services for LIVE streaming?

Hello,

I am planning to go with IIS Media services for LIVE streaming instead of Wowza server. I do not see much differences between these two if you are not looking for Flash streaming.

IIS Media services has the following advantages over Wowza - FYI: I am comparing with Wowza on Windows platform.

1. IIS Media services comes with out of the box.
2. Has good UI for configuration/setup.
3. UI to see the status of streams
4. Built-in DVR support/Archive support

Please let me know, if you see any disadvantages or more advantages.

Thank you for your time!
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  • RokuJoel's avatar
    RokuJoel
    Binge Watcher
    14 years ago
    "bashir_aboug" wrote:

    How can you get the Roku to display the realtime live encode with IIS Smooth Streaming without it starting at the beginning of the DVR window size?? (Thats the question you should be asking. If I could disable the DVR functionality and have just a live stream that would be perfect)

    Thats my experience

    Bashir


    Here is something that might be useful to you:

    According to RokuKevin, in reference to some similar questions we have been getting, to play the "now" part of your stream as opposed to starting at the beginning, on Roku you can either:

    1) [on the server side] Use a "sliding live window" meaning only keep the latest segments (we recommend eight ) that represents the live point in the .m3u8

    or

    2) [in your video metadata] Specify a PlayStart value that will seek to the end of the stream. (It's best if it is a minute from the end of the stream for the best playback experience with reduced rebuffers). A value larger than the end of stream will just play at the live point.

    That would I think look something like: videoclip.Playstart=10740
    if the window is 3 hours, 10740 is 2 hours 59 minutes.

    - Joel