Use Smooth Streaming to change video sources

06-08-2009 10:32 AM |

Hi,

 I want to use Smooth Streaming to rapidly change video streams (change to a different video), by using it's capability of start almost instantly receiving the new one at a low bitrate. Is this possible? Another thing is, if the previous is possible, can I do the same with live streams, i.e. changing to a different live stream almost seamlessly?

 Many thanks

Re: Use Smooth Streaming to change video sources

06-11-2009 7:10 AM |

Hi Zespadanal,

Smooth Streaming will provide different bitrates due to the visitor's network condition.  Therefore, please make sure that your network and the different bitrate video versions hosted on your IIS.  For more, we would recommend you take a look at this video tutorial.

Best regards,

Jonathan

Re: Use Smooth Streaming to change video sources

06-11-2009 7:33 AM |

Hi Jonathan, I think I did not make myself clear. I wish to use Smooth Streaming to provide different bitrates, but also to provide quick changing times (I don't know how quick this can be) between different videos (not different bitrates of the same video). I also have another question. Using Live Smooth Streaming for real-time streaming, how about the time needed to change from a video to another (again, I'm not talking about different bitrates, but different video, with different streaming sources). And in that case, when I switch to another content (video) I want to receive the more recent chunk (to be closer to live). Can this be done? And what happens to the buffer from the previous source, as when I change back I don't want to see from where it stopped, but rather from live again. The functioning I'm looking for is like a TV when you change channels. Has this to programmed in the Silverlight client? If so, where can I get info on that? Sorry for my bad english, and thank you very much for you time. Best regards, João