IIS Smooth Streaming和Windows Media Service之间的区别

Question

I am looking in to options for windows streaming technologies for streaming live webcam . I am not quite sure pros -cons , price and media format differences between the two . I know that IIS smooth streaming is newer technology and end user has to install silver light plugin to load video . What are other major differences ?

Answer 1

I've found there's quite a bit of confusing information out there due to similar terminology being used and regular releases making even slightly old blog posts out of date.

I assume your question is around "Windows Media Services" and IIS Smooth Streaming

Windows Media Services is a standalone update for Server 2008 (I don't believe its available for Server 2012). On installation you use the Server Manager to add WMS as a new server role. WMS provides for on-demand streaming and live streaming, I dont believe it provides for adaptive bitrate streaming

IIS Smooth Streaming is available in IIS7 via this standalone update IIS7 Media Services 4.1 . It is available in IIS8/Server 2012 without any additional download. IIS Smooth streaming is Microsoft's product name for 'on-demand' smooth streaming.

This is a good blog post explaining IIS smooth streaming .

Pricing - they are both free, assuming you already have the OS licence.