Hosting and Streaming

H.264 streaming: Windows Media Services/IIS Media Services?

onezero — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:07:24 GMT

In the presentation "In Depth Microsoft Silverlight" by Ben Waggoner the media ecosystem consists of create, distribute, and experience (page 9). For each step there are two tools, i.e. for distributing there are Windows Media Services, or Microsoft IIS. Both alternatives are presented (page 19) with a definition and applicable scenario.

When it comes to distribution of H.264 the Microsoft IIS 7.0 Media Services with (Live) Smooth Streaming seems the only option at this moment. It looks great, and utilizes regular HTTP caching, which is supported by major CDNs. Even the Smooth Streaming FAQ by Alex Zambelli has the answers to my questions regarding creation, distribution, and experience. So why don't I implement it?

Because our videos are currently distributed by Windows Media Services by a major CDN it only seems natural to move on this track. However, there seems no roadmap available on H.264 support by Windows Media Services. Or does anyone have any (found) information otherwise? It would be really nice to know what Windows Media Services will bring to the table before I have our video library converted, and the processes of creating videos and distributing videos changed to IIS Media Services :)

Publish Silverlight application

nz — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:53:12 GMT

Hi guys,

I am try to publish a silverlight application with a web from VS2008, basicaly, my silverlight app have a webservice reference from loccalhost help to access to database.

But, after publish to IIS 7 , I don't why the web service I created is not working?

I found it just run the silverlight app without webservice.

Do I need to run webserive manully, or what should I do?

By the way I am using silverlight 3 and .net 3.5, just checked the IIS is with ,net 2.0.

many thx

Able to see Silverlight content on Local IIS but not remotely

tehprata — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:06:40 GMT

Hi all,

I'm able to host my Silverlight video player which is reading data from an XML file (videos.xml) on IIS. I've created the clientaccesspolicy.xml and placed it at the root of my server. On my IIS machine, I'm able to view my video content on IE and Firefox. However, on accessing it from a remote PC, the Silverlight application displays but it is not reading from my videos.xml data.

On my IIS machine, HttpFox reports it finds clientaccesspolicy.xml successfully. However, on my remote machine, HttpFox does not look for clientaccesspolicy.xml at all. Shouldn't HttpFox also look for 'clientaccesspolicy.xml' on the remote machine?

This is my clientaccesspolicy.xml file:

<access-policy>
    <cross-domain-access>
        <policy>
            <allow-from http-request-headers="*">
                <domain uri="*" />
            </allow-from>
            <grant-to>
                <resource include-subpaths="true" path="/" />
            </grant-to>
        </policy>
    </cross-domain-access>
</access-policy>

Any help is much appreciated.. thanks

Prata

Expression Encoder 3 Graphing Template

akshaysilverlight — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:21:19 GMT

Hello ,

In Encoder 3 Graphing template , we are getting only one graph when we play any smooth streaming video. In Encoder2 template , there was 3 graphs . Its good but quite complicated , Can anyone tell me , what is blue color and yellow color lines representing in the graph .

As per my understanding ,

Red Color is for BIt Rate Graph

Green Coloris is for Frame Rate

But what is blue color

what is Yellow Color Line ?

Can we get source code for generating the graphs ?

Silverlight 3 control fails to run

WilliamRobbie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:39:14 GMT

We have a client that can't run any Silverlight application on their PC. They are sitting behind a corporate firewall. The page loads but the silverlight control remains blank.

Is there anything that needs to be changed to make it possible for them to be able to view Silverlight controls?

Does anyone have any advice

William

Video Uploads

silverlightmonster — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:40:24 GMT

Hi,

I am building an application to allow users to share videos. Is there any way to allow users to upload videos to my Silverlight Streaming account (without giving them my username and password obviously) so that I would be able to play them?

Are there any other providers that allow users to upload videos and would be playable inside silverlight? Tried with rapidshare though they have that random time thing for free hosting, also Vimeo and Youtube do not work as they have the clientaccesspolicy.xml.

I just need to find somewhere where my users would be able to host their videos and just give a link when filling in the registration form so that I would be able to grab the video and play it.

Blank Page When Browsing Silverlight Business Application

Nogido — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:05:39 GMT

I am trying to publish my silverlight application but seem to be getting a blank page. I have added three MIME types, published my Business Application .web project to address: http://localhost/RemoteStaging/

I can see the virtual directory in the IIS manager. However when I try to browse I get a blank page. I added a clientaccesspolicy.xml file. I am using images as build action: resource, copy always.

Again, I just see a blank page. What could it be?

Thanks

silverlight player(training video-buffering problem-Please help me!!!!

billsm — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:31:08 GMT

I would really greatly appreciate it if someone could really help me with this question I have a vista ultimate x86 and my current

windows media player is 110. 6002.18065 (it looks like I do not have expression encoder installed on my computer-I hope this helps

I recently have tried watching silverlight 3 training videos, my biggest problem

with watching these videos is after loading these silverlight videos-I have had constant buffering problems

Is this because of silverlight streaming???Do the silverlight training videos use expression encoder to stream the video than use windows media player as a player??

In other words the video will load and play for 2 minutes then the video will go into buffering mode

and then I have wait till buffering stops....Is their any way to stop buffering so I could watch these

training videos on my computer???? Could someone provide detailed instructions on how you

solve these problems.???? I enjoy watching videos on channel 9 as well.....

I do have a msdn subscription....I am waiting for my shipment all expression dvd's to come out. as well as windows 7 ...so I am wondering is if all I have to do is install expression encoder( I expect the media shipment will be in october-hopefully)

Please someone....anyone help me!!!!

. I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me

Here is my previous post http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/130997/292771.aspx#292771

Thank you !!!!

I do wish someone from the microsoft support team address this issue My video card is up to date

and I am not sure about the use of codecs in windows media player 11

SilverLight host fire onload event again when parent element visibility changed!

LionLau — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:43:10 GMT

Hello, I put a SilverLight Host in a DIV,when DIV 's visibility change. the SilverLight Host fire onload event again,

Please tell me why ,and how to avoid it ...

Hosting RIA services in Sharepoint

DennisJansen — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:23:41 GMT

I watched a series of video's on RIA services over here:

http://www.myvbprof.com/2007_Version/RIA_July09.aspx

This is a very interesting technology. However, it uses a standard .NET webapplication to host the Silverlight app. I want Sharepoint to host the Silverlight application. Is there a way to do that? Where can I fiond more info on this subject.

Publish Failed But no Errors

zenhgjjh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:12:18 GMT

I am trying to build and publish my web app. When I do a publish to the Main Server I get the message that the publish failed, but get no further information: But I am able to publish Locally and to other server the same application. Thanks in Advance

Please Help About Silverlight Video Platform..

kannu_s — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:08:34 GMT

Hello!

Want To Ask About Silverlight Video Platform

Is Microsoft Silverlight Also Proivde Video Platform,Analytics,CMS,Live Streaming Hosting Etc.

For Example i Want To Start Video Platform Who Can Provide CMS, Monetization, Analytics, Syndication, End-User Quality, LIVE Streaming, Closed Captioning, Etc When Anybody Click Right Click on Youtube Video It Show Flash Player Using When We Click Here It Show Silverlight Talking About This!

So These All Things We Getting in Adobe Flash Player Is Silverlight Also Allow To Host These Things Please Tell.

Thanks!

Upload a video on my site and code it to Smooth Streaming. Is it possible?

Pablo pecora — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:57:46 GMT

Hi.

I'm planning a website that will include Silverlight Smoth Streaming.

I want the users of the site to be able to upload any video in the site (let's say like youtube) and my site to encode the uploaded videos in the Smooth Streaming format. (like Microsoft Expression Encoder would do, but web)

Is is possible? What should I use to achieve that? (I'm really interested even if I have to pay for some particular product for doing this).

Thanks in advance.

PnP

Problem displaying Silverlight contents using umlaut url

vivek_daramwal — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:54:54 GMT

Hi,

I have created a Silverlight application and i want to host it inside IIS. Inside IIS what i did is, i have created a new website with a name tüna (containing umlaut character) and added the published Silverlight project inside that website. While browsing the website using an address like http://localhost:80/silverlightTestPage.aspx, the Silverlight content is displaying properly but if i browse it using the website name like http://tüna:100/silverlightTestPage.aspx, the address is not getting resolved. It is getting converted to http://xn--tna-hoa:100/silverlightTestPage.aspx.

So i tried putting an entry inside my hosts file as 127.0.0.0 tüna xn--tna-hoa, but now while browsing it using an address http://tüna:100/silverlightTestPage.aspx, i am getting a blank page, only silverlight plugin is there.

Also i tried putting an image file (sample.jpeg) inside the published folder and i am able to browse it using an umlaut url like http://tüna:100/sample.jpeg.

Can anybody please tell me why Silverlight contents is not getting displayed using an umlaut url.

Also, you can find out the similar query here in Visifire forums.

Bleeding Edge Syndrom: Major problems deploying SilverLight on IIS

mNasser — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:22:39 GMT

We just finished programming our first SilverLight app. It works beautifully except that we cannot deploy it anywhere! It even fails on our development station. We're running against a solid deadline and supposed to have deployed the software on customer's site today. However, this installation problem is making it impossible to benefit from a lot of programming work we put on the system in the past few weeks!

Our boss is blaming the development team for choosing new technology for this project. He calls this "Bleading Edge". Can someone help us get this working before we all get fired! Here is a description of the problem:

Silverligth + WCF + WCF makes call to a multithread COM DLL
It all works very well when run from VS2008

After published to IIS However, outside of the IDE it gives an unknown exception when it does a WCF call

Out tside the development server it doesn't work

It always works when the development is on

.svc file is not recognized outside development

And here is the exception I get:

An exception occurred during the operation, making the result invalid. Check InnerException for exception details.

at System.ComponentModel.AsyncCompletedEventArgs.RaiseExceptionIfNecessary()

at AccuSLLink.AccuService.GetStudentCompletedEventArgs.get_Result()

at AccuSLLink.Home.OnGetStudentCompleted(Object sender, GetStudentCompletedEventArgs e)

at AccuSLLink.AccuService.AccuServiceC

I'll be monitoring this post during the weekend. Please reply if you have ideas. TIA.

help me!! how create my own server

MasterWPF — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:26:50 GMT

Hello, sorry i speak spanish, could someone help me to create my own server in window server 2008 for my page Silverlight with Sql Server!!! :( S.O.S

Error while running the application

laaki — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:18:52 GMT

I am trying to build the appliacation.At the time i am getting this error.Can anyone guide me?

Cannot create instance of 'Window1' defined in assembly 'TestApp, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Error in markup file 'Window1.xaml' Line 1 Position 9.

Is smooth streaming + Amazon S3 possible?

maktouch — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:52:34 GMT

How would that work out? I had trouble making it work when the videos were hosted somewhere else.

I need a streaming server, replacement to Flash Media Server

magdy.roshdy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:51:43 GMT

in my company we will build a Class Room application, so we are confused in using Flash or Silverlight to develop that.

we made one before but with Flash and Flash Media Server, I use Flash Media Server for streaming and managing connected users, calling functions on them -connected user = connected flash movie to Media Server application instance-.

now, we need to use Silverlight in this, but I don't know a replacement for Media Server with its features, not audio streaming only, but also server features such as manage connected users, close the connection, shared objects ans so on.

the decision of using Silverlight is depends in this server, so if any know any software that act with Silverlight as Media Server act with Flash please tell me.

thanks for ALL

Issue with hosting Silverlight control in ascx page on Firefox 3 browser

CRam — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:05:25 GMT

We have a Silverlight 2.0 application hosted within an ASP .Net web control (ascx page). The application works fine with Internet Explorer (6, 7, 8), but does not with Firefox 3 browser. We observe a blank page getting loaded, but when we right click on it, we observe the 'Silverlight' option in the context menu.

Below is the markup of the form tag (with the name of the controls changed) on ascx control hosting the silverlight control.

    <form id="form1" style="height:100%;">
        <div style="height:100%;">
            <asp:Silverlight ID="XamlTest" runat="server" Source="~/ClientBin/Test.xap" MinimumVersion="2.0.31005.0" Width="990px" Height="500px" />
        </div>
    </form>
The 'form' tag cannot be marked with the attribute 'runat="server"', as the parent page already has another form with this attribute.
We have not missed the registration of the System.Web.Silverlight assembly at the beginning of the ascx page.

Any insight on what could go wrong with Firefox 3 browser would be very helpful.

Silverlight and Firefox - Vertical Dashed Line?

yourbuddypal — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:22:06 GMT

When interacting with my silverlight control in firefox, vertical dashed lines appear on both sides of it. What gives? This does not happen in IE or Chrome.

Data access issues after deployment

siyr — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:04:08 GMT

Hi, When I run in VS2008 sandbox, the data is retrieved and shows up in the Silverlight Grid. However, once I deploy the app, and try access using http invocation, the data does not showup. Fiddler message is HTTP 502 localhost:55152 /clientaccesspolicy.xml. But, I do have clientaccesspolicy.xml file at the ROOT I.e.C:\inetpub\wwwroot. I suspect that the endpoint settings in web.config file is what is creating the problem. Once deployed, I do not understand why web.config has references to localhost in the endpoint tag. If this is the issue, can someone help me in showing how to fix this, thanks in advance.

Receiving 4001 error when trying to play smooth streaming video using Silverlight 3

cmichel — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:01:54 GMT

I am using expression encoder to create the video for me. When I use the default.html (generated by expression encoder) everything works fine. But when I change the MediaSource property of the MediaElement to be the exact same full URI it doesn't work.

For example, when the MediaSource="test.ism\Manifest" everything works. But when I change it to http://localhost/sl/test.ism\Manifest" I get a 4001 error.

This is a problem for me because our html files must be hosted on different servers then our Silverlight content. Is there something I am doing wrong?

<MediaSource>http://localhost/sl/sl/HighQualityTest.ism%5CManifest</MediaSource>

Data Access Problem After Deployment

zenhgjjh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:50:10 GMT

I am able to deploy SL application to Windows server 2008 and when i view my application in browser i am not able to see the any data binding to the modules. I had used Sql server with RiaServices to Access. Is there any things to change with web.config or ConnectionString ? I am not sure. Any Ideas? Thanks in Advance.

No request to clientaccesspolicy or crossdomain

Keitboor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:33:32 GMT

Hello,

I have a silverlight application into my ASP .NET MVC web site. The silverlight consum a WCF service. In local environment (Visual Studio) its works, i can request my service to get informations or insert informations.

But when i deploying the application on a Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7 and reach the silverlight application remotly, the application doesn't request the clientaccesspolicy.xml or crossdomain.xml on the root folder of the server and the get or insert operation contract doesn't works :

An error occured while trying to make a request to uri 'http://server-name/DataService.svc'. This could be due to attempting to access a service in a cross-diomain way without a proper cross-domain policy in place, or a plocy that is unsuitable for SOAP Services...

I search on the internet since 2 days and i find nothing on this problem, i put Nikhil's Web Development Helper, and the only request that my application send for an xml file is http://dev.virtualearth.net/clientaccesspolicy.xml (I've the microsoft virtual earth Silverlight control).

This is my clientaccesspolicy.xml :

<access-policy>
  <cross-domain-access>
    <policy>
      <allow-from http-request-headers="*">
        <domain uri="*"/>
      </allow-from>
      <grant-to>
        <resource path="/" include-subpaths="true"/>
      </grant-to>
    </policy>
  </cross-domain-access>
</access-policy>

and the crossdomain.xml file :

<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
  <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="*"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

Can somone help me to resolve this problem ?

Thanks in advance