David Bristol's Media blog
From Windows Media to IIS Media Services to Azure Media Services I'll have tips and tricks for each of these.
Azure Media Player itself does not support audio-only or video-only streams as per the bottom of...
Date: 06/21/2017
Beginning in June 2016, when you encode videos with the Media Encoder Standard within Azure Media...
Date: 07/08/2016
<note: I plan on occasionally editing this page with updated information. I may not document the...
Date: 03/23/2016
To get the list of assets from Azure Media Services in the PHP SDK you use the getAssetList()...
Date: 11/05/2015
If you are using Azure Media Services to deliver video content and encoded your video with one of...
Date: 06/10/2015
Multicast logging can be useful when you want to collect statistical information about the client...
Date: 10/21/2014
When you use Azure Media Services to create a live streaming channel, a program is also created. A...
Date: 10/06/2014
Starting in September 2014 Azure Media Services changed the default behavior for publishing Azure...
Date: 09/18/2014
Job record limit for Windows Azure Media Encoder After processing a large number of videos with the...
Date: 05/05/2014
[edited 2016-11-24 to include Windows Server 2016 info] I've been asked several times if Windows...
Date: 11/14/2012
When I was developing my first Azure Media Services application based on the how-to guide, I had a...
Date: 06/08/2012
In April Microsoft announced Azure Media Services at NAB in Las Vegas. This enables encoding,...
Date: 06/07/2012
First a bit of terminology that will help keep things clear. For the purposes of this discussion I...
Date: 04/16/2011
The Windows Media Load Simulator (occasionally abbreviated as 'loadsim') tool was created to help...
Date: 08/06/2010
One of the things I’ve found with Smooth Streaming is that people have no idea how to create a...
Date: 07/23/2010
One common question I get from Windows Media Services admins who have looked through their log files...
Date: 11/11/2009
For a number of years now I've had customers ask me about how to prevent deep linking from random...
Date: 10/16/2009
One of the main differences between Windows Media Services 9.1 on Windows 2003 and WMS 2008 on...
Date: 08/18/2009
Attached to this post I've included a HTML file (inside the zip) that I use all of the time to see...
Date: 07/20/2009
In the next few posts, I am going to discuss high availability scenarios for times when you...
Date: 07/14/2009
I occasionally get contacted by customers that are having problems keeping their Windows Media...
Date: 07/09/2009
One of the guys on my team recently tried installing Silverlight 2.0 on one of his older systems. He...
Date: 05/27/2009
Since this is a fairly major issue for a number of people that are running Windows Media Services...
Date: 03/30/2009
This is my first post on Silverlight, so I thought I would post on a common issue that I've seen...
Date: 02/09/2009
When you are ripping CDs with Windows Media Player, the player can automatically go out to the...
Date: 01/15/2009
You may have seen in a network trace that when Windows Media Player connects to Windows Media...
Date: 12/10/2008
I've talked to a number of people that are having problems streaming from Windows Media Services...
Date: 09/05/2008
This load balancing solution will cost you a grand total of about 10 minutes of time. Now I will say...
Date: 08/26/2008
Over the years I've talked to a number of people that want to broadcast a live video at a certain...
Date: 08/26/2008
When Windows Media Player connects to a Windows Media server the player tries to use the most...
Date: 08/18/2008
Easy automatic ASX generation In my first post, I thought it would be helpful to show how to use...
Date: 03/20/2008