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 ?
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information out there due to similar terminology being used and regular releases making even slightly old blog posts out of date.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.
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I've developed a responsive emailer which works perfectly on all devices except that it doesn't work on Pixel Android 7 device.
It simply discards media queries and displays the desktop version of the emailer.
What could be the reason for this issue?
At this time, Android does not support #media queries. Some versions of Gmail do not support them and neither does Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016.
https://litmus.com/help/email-clients/media-query-support/
To build on #gwally's answer, some Android clients don't support media queries. If the email client in question is Gmail, it still might not support media queries depending on what Gmail product is being tested.
While Gmail rolled out major media query support in 2016, the update does not cover every Gmail product. Rémi Parmentier did a fantastic breakdown of Gmail's media query support:
In addition to the link #gwally posted, Campaign Monitor has a good breakdown of support.
So if, for instance, your Pixel phone is using Gmail with a POP/IMAP email, media queries won't work and we should expect to see a shrunken version of the desktop version. Hybrid email design can make an email layout stack in mobile clients that don't support media queries. Here's a primer if this is something you'd like to look into.
We're a small software company, developing projects for manufacturing facilities about analysis, traceability, reporting etc. We're using Access for front end, SQL Server for back end. We've quite big customers too and our company is growing. So far it is working fine but I wonder should we move to more influential technologies, such as web based solutions. What do you think about the future of Access?
Well, keep in mind that Access now has a web option. This option works with SharePoint and the new upcoming office 365. Here is a video of an Access application and note how at the half way point I switch to running the application 100% in a web browser. No ActiveX or Silverlight is required. I even tested and run the application on my iPad.
Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU4mH0jPntI
And Access 2010 also has baked in support for the Azure (cloud) edition of SQL server.
So, we have web based options, cloud based options, and there been significant investments into Access for 2010.
You could have a look at these questions:
MS Access as Enterprise Software?
and
What are the appropriate uses for MS Access?
Here we have a central SQL Server database, with both an MS-Access and a Web client interface. MS-Access is history (we started it 5 years ago) and Web is trendy (less than one year old). I must admit that MS Access is still very very efficient and cheap, once you have resolved some MS access specific problems, to which you might find answers here:
Working with multiple programmers on MS Access
How do you use version control with Access development?
Best way to test a MS Access application?
MS-Access, VBA and error handling
You can always use VB.NET Express. It's free, and Microsoft's licensing should still allow you to sell apps created with it (they did with Express 2005).
UPDATE: Access 2013 has better support for web apps than previous versions, and the apps use SQL Server or SQL Azure under the hood by default. So be sure to thoroughly evaluate the latest version of Access before concluding that you need something else.
A very good alternative to Access with similar features is Lightswitch. Here's a quote from MSDN:
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a development environment designed to simplify and shorten the development of businesses applications and data services. LightSwitch makes it easy to create data-centric business applications that can consume a variety of data sources and create clients that can run on a variety of devices.
While Access now has a web option as #AlbertDKallal mentioned (and which is still worth considering as one option), creating an HTML 5 app is the whole focus of Lightswitch. (Note: the original version of Lightswitch required Silverlight, but the newer versions create HTML5 apps that don't require any plugins.) The app will also be more extensible, since it's a .NET app, and for things that require custom programming you can program in C# or Visual Basic rather than VBA.
I should mention at this point that I haven't actually tried Lightswitch yet (!) - I'm currently evaluating it and these are the features that look attractive to me compared to Access. If anyone reading this in the future is curious about what my experience with it was like, feel free to write a comment to remind me.
For some introductory info, see these links:
Showcase Video
Is Visual Studio LightSwitch the New Access?
(Note that this article is about a the original version of LightSwitch, not the latest version.)
And...for a completely different cloud-based option, check out:
https://www.parasql.com/
Greeting,
Is there a live streaming server for silverlight 4 from Microsoft like Flash Media Server from Adobe that support live streaming for Flash???
I know that there are many open source live streaming server that support silverlight 4 but I did not find some one good as Flash Media Server which support Flash!!!
please tell me if Microsoft has a media server for live streaming or if there is a good open source server for that.
I'm working in building web conference system using silverlight 4 but I have problem with server that all the open source servers I used are really slow.
Thank you,
Microsoft supply a range of services for media including live streaming.
See Windows Media Services.
Also take a look at Live Smooth Streaming for iis 7
I am researching using silverlight 4 to develop a desktop application that can be installed from a browser window, now the tricky part is that I want a lightweight database embedded into the application. The database should install with the rest of the application and it should ideally work on both windows and mac systems. Originally I was thinking sqlite would be suitable for this but I have learned that it is not compatible with silverlight. Does anyone know of a solution for this?
There are some available silverlight databases such as:
siaqodb - uses LINQ, available for WP7 - commercial.
effiproz - available for WP7 - commercial.
Perst - open source.
These utilizes silverlight local storage, comes with their own database engine.
There is also Ninja Database Pro that works for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7:
http://www.kellermansoftware.com/p-43-ninja-database-pro.aspx
Nowadays SQL Lite is a viable option for SL4 / SL5.
You could also team that up with DevArt LinqConnect product (http://www.devart.com/linqconnect/) that is an EF / Linq-to-SQL like wrapper over SQL Lite.
I've also looked at alternatives Siaqo DB and Ninja DB (as mentioned by others).
While not exactly a database, the upcoming release of the Sync Framework will support offline caching for Silverlight 4 on the desktop/browser, and Silverlight on Windows Phone 7. As Liam Cavanagh mentions in this blog post before TechEd:
I have a TechEd session this week where I will be demonstrating all of this as well as how we will be extending the capabilities of the sync framework for creating offline applications, specifically allowing Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and even non-MSFT platforms to be used for the clients.
Link
Anyone have recommendations for webcast software, similar to the Silverlight app here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL57/
I looked at a couple other questions posted here, but I don't want a hosted solution.
The PDC Channel 9 Site is using the player base from http://codeplex.com/SL2VideoPlayer with some of their modifications (which we plan to roll into that project). They have a Windows Media Streaming server back-end delivering the media.
For Flash there is JW FLV Player. Just put the files on your own web server. On CodePlex you can find a Silverlight 2.0 media player.