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This deployment guide describes how to deliver a full Smooth Streaming experience using Microsoft technologies. (Updated August 2010)

• Smooth Streaming is the Microsoft implementation of adaptive streaming technology, which is a form of Web-based media content delivery that uses standard HTTP. Instead of delivering media as full-file downloads, or as persistent (and thus stateful) streams, the content is delivered to clients as a series of MPEG-4 (MP4) fragments that can be cached at edge servers. Smooth Streaming-compatible clients use special heuristics to dynamically monitor current network and local PC conditions and seamlessly switch the video quality of the Smooth Streaming presentation that they receive. As a result, users experience the highest-quality playback available, with no interruptions in the stream.As a content producer, you can encode on-demand files and live broadcasts to Smooth Streaming format using Microsoft Expression Encoder 4. As a content provider, you can use IIS Media Services to serve the encoded Smooth Streams. And as a content consumer, you can play the Smooth Streams using a Smooth Streaming-compatible client, such as Microsoft Silverlight. This document discusses the Microsoft implementation for delivering a full Smooth Streaming experience.

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Status: Live This download is still available on microsoft.com. Since you’re using a legacy operating system, the downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

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Smooth_Streaming_Deployment_Guide.docx SHA1: 9f3b0e2810e5444e15b64694406679ab871d95e9	1.72 MB
Smooth_Streaming_Deployment_Guide.pdf SHA1: 59a69a4f51a0855dd1fcfcf04bf19b50a0e45e41	1.85 MB

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