Good afternoon,

Please could someone tell me what the capabilities are for Silverlight's live streaming capabilities. We currently have a Flash based solution because we chose Flash Media Server over Windows Media for the following reasons.

As much as we tinkered with Windows Media, by setting the players buffer to none and setting the encoders buffer to none, we simply could not get the stream to be as real time as we would like. Flash has very real time encoding.

We understand WMV is a high end codec and because of this superior quality there is a trade off in encoding time. However Flash's real time streaming uses the Spark codec (very fast encoding) oppose to the On2 VP6 codec (very slow encoding). In this situation real time is traded off for video quality. By setting a buffer of 0 on the client we achieve very real time streams.

Unfortunately with Windows Media this is not possible.

I would like to hear if this situation is possible in Silverlight. We love the technology however this is a show stopper for us when it comes to real time broadcasting & conferencing solutions.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and take care.