Note: This blog is not intended for end users of an on-demand or live TV service. If you are an end user and have error 6030, you should contact the customer support of your video service provider (and mention this resolution). The Issue: Regardless...

Many things can go wrong when you try to stand up a PlayReady license server. Below are some of the common errors you may have when working with PlayReady license server and PlayReady Server SDK, v 1.5.2, v 2.0 or v 2.1. Error Number 1: If you use...

What is the issue? Your Silverlight 4 player application might encounter a 6028: No valid simple or leaf license is available to create the decryptor error when using Silverlight 5 runtime with persistent licenses. This error may occur regardless whether...

This link provides a detailed explanation of creating various Transform Manager job templates using built in task definitions, but not including “PlayReady Protection” task definition. The goal of this blog is to detail the steps on how to...

The Envivio 4Caster™ C4 · Gen III is an encoding/transcoding solution for producing live video streams for Mobile TV, Internet TV and IPTV. It provides integrated content encoding and PlayReady encryption. When Envivio 4Caster C4 is used...

Needless to say, using a DRM product such as PlayReady to protect OTT content is absolutely essential for premium content providers. One of my MSO customers is so DRM-conscious that they want to do session-based encryption of live smooth streaming...

Introduction PlayReady 2.x Premium and IIS Media Services 5.0 Premium have enabled the following four key features which are needed for scalable live TV service: Industrial strength key rotation (both leaf license and root license); Blackout...

Often, we need to store Silverlight client related data such as client profile or network settings on servers so that it is available for retrieval. For this purpose, we need to uniquely identify every Silverlight client. There are multiple ways, but...

The primary input of Transform Manager jobs is through watch folders. However, in order to integrate Transform Manager job templates into an existing content workflow, sometimes we may wish to use command line to run Transform Manager jobs. The benefits...

John Deutscher has written a blog on how to set up Apple HTTP Live Streaming with IIS Media Services . The purpose of this blog is to discuss some issues you may encounter in setting up HLS with IIS Media Services 4.1. HLS Fails When HLS Assets Are...