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.
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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information out there due to similar terminology being used and regular releases making even slightly old blog posts out of date.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.
We are using a Sliverlight player to play videos on a .Net website. This player is available on Codeplex at http://slvideoplayer.codeplex.com/releases/view/21749. This player plays videos from another website served over http (Ex:[http://ThirdpartyWesbite.com/video1.wmv]). We are currently in the process of implementing SSL on our website and configured our development environment with SSL only to find that the Silverlight video player cannot play the videos anymore. A little bit of research seemed to indicate that Silverlight does not allow cross-scheme (https -> http) communication. More specifically Information available on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb820909.aspx seems to indicate Silverlight pretty much prohibits cross-scheme communication.
It is possible that if the third party website serves files over https then my problem would likely go away. Unfortunately I cannot make them implement SSL on their site. I just would like to know if there is anybody in the community that faced a similar situation and were able to find any work-around. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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 would like to develop a web conferencing system (or web classroom) as a graduation project using Silverlight similar to
iVocalize
which is a java applete .
I don't know if what is possible for a java applete to perform on the PC is also possible for Silverlight, or is SL more restricted.
There are two functionalities (which are related i guess) that iVocalize provides which i would also like to include in my SL application, which are:
A participant may broadcast a live video stream of the desktop to other participants so that they will be able to follow all activities performed on the computer.
A participant may take a snapshot of the desktop
If the previous functionalities are not possible in SL than do you think that WPF may be used instead?
Thank you vey much.
Actually, you can use Silverlight 4 Web cam features.
With Silverlight 4, you can develop full-trust Silverlight application that can capture the snapshot of user desktop.
Using Silverlight it is possible.. Have a look at this open source silverlight project. Its has desktop sharing as one of the module
http://silverlightvideochat.codeplex.com/
Does anyone know of any commercial web sites that currently use Silverlight other than Microsoft's own sites?
The silverlight site has a huge showcase gallery, you can check that out.
http://silverlight.net/Showcase/
Netflix instant streaming.
(Incidentally, the site linked above doesn't work on my machine. Yay for completely ignoring web standards!)
I like AOL's webmail client.
http://ria.mail.aol.com/
It is still in beta, but it is fast.
I found another awesome Silverlight webmail client - called Silvermail:
http://silvermail.com.au
It's pretty slick and really fast, and it is totally free for use in the public domain... I use it with gmail because our corporate firewall won't let me check email while at work, plus I find the gmail interface too confusing... Silvermail is really simple.
A couple of friends have used it successfully for POP3 and it also works with Hotmail and Yahoo.
This Silverlight site used to work with Moonlight in the 2008, 2009 era--that was at least 2 versions of Moonlight ago: http://www.recreation.gov/camping/Furnace_Creek_Ca/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=70978&topTabIndex=CampingSpot . I just downloaded the latest version of Moonlight 3.99.0.3 and it doesn't work. Silverlight is used just for the map option, so click on the button labelled Facility Map. It is just about in the center of the first page (top to bottom and side to side).