Smooth Streaming

News

The development of our adaptive streaming software is continued at the  Unified Streaming Platform website. The version that is available on this website (version 1.0.8) supports Video On Demand (VOD) only. If you are looking for adaptive streaming playback of VOD content on Smooth Streaming compatible players (Silverlight) and iPhone/iPad devices, this version is for you. Newer versions with features like LIVE broadcasting, Adobe Flash 10.1/Zeri playback, DRM, etc... you can find at our new site.

Adaptive Streaming

Microsoft recently announced  Smooth Streaming for Silverlight. They support Smooth Streaming via an IIS extension (the IIS Media Services, previously IIS Media Pack).

The extension we present here:

• adds support for earlier versions of IIS: version 5 and 6.
• adds support for Lighttpd, Apache and Nginx.
• adds support for H264 encoded videos and AAC and MP3 encoded audio.
• adds support for playback of SBR (Single Bit Rate) MP4 files (your existing content).
• adds support for playback on iPhone and iPad (Apple's adaptive HTTP streaming).

We're currently working on:

• adding support for playback in Flash 10.1 (Adobe HTTP Streaming).
• adding publishing of live video.

Demo

•  Smooth Streaming VC-1/WmaPro for Apache
•  Smooth Streaming H264/AAC for Apache
•  Smooth Streaming H264/AAC on iPhone

To view the second demo, you need to have the  Silverlight 3 player installed.

Advantages

• It's HTTP-based, so no problems with firewalls.
• It's cache/proxy friendly, so you can use generic HTTP caches/proxies.
• It's cheap, there is no need for additional media streaming services offered by hosting providers.
• The end user will appreciate the fast starting and seeking anywhere in the video.
• The video dynamically adapts to network conditions.
• It uses the industry standard MPEG4 file format.
• Use your favourite open source software ( X264) to encode your videos.
• Encoded content is compatible with both Smooth Streaming for Silverlight as well as for HTTP Streaming to the iPhone.

License

This version is free if you agree to the  noncommercial license. Please mention its use on your website, in the lines of 'This website uses video streaming technology by  CodeShop'.

See the following page to check if you need a commercial license.

Quickstart

Download and installation instructions for:

• Apache
• IIS5 and IIS6
• IIS7
• Nginx.

Have a look at the latest release notes to see what has changed.

Next

• Encoding Smooth Streaming videos.
• Playing Smooth Streaming videos.
• Encoding iPhone compatible Smooth Streaming videos.
• Encoding Live Smooth Streaming videos (in development).

Feedback

If you have any questions, thoughts or ideas on Smooth Streaming you can leave a message on our forum or write us a private mail.