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Vishal Sood posted a new blog entry on the latest release of the Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 2 last week.
Read all about the new features in the Player SDK, and download the bits here: http://blogs.iis.net/vsood/archive/2010/01/15/iis-smooth-streaming-player-development-kit-beta-2-released.aspx
Key features include:
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Basic Playback controls
- APIs such as Play, Pause, Stop, etc.
- Events for Playback and Diagnostics
- Properties to track position, etc.
- Advanced Playback support
- DVR support for Live Smooth Streaming
- Support for keeping track of Live event while in DVR (*new in Beta 2*)
- Trick Play: Slow Motion
- Trick Play: Fast Forward / Rewind (*new in Beta 2*)
- H.264 / AAC support (*new in Beta 2*)
- Monetization
- Ad Playback integration – scheduling capabilities, tracking Ad progress
- Live Ad Insertion with Live Smooth Streaming
- Rich Analytics with IIS Advanced Logging
- Support for specifying markers/Ad ingestion point outside the main manifest (*new in Beta 2*)
- Content Protection – PlayReady integration for VC1 content
- Composite Manifest Support for scenarios like Rough Cut Editing (*new in Beta 2*)
- Selecting Tracks for playback (e.g., restrict the bit-rates available, support multiple camera angles in a single stream, etc.)
- Support for progressive download Ads/content
- SSME is used in Silverlight Media Framework(SMF) and the partnership helps facilitate faster player development
The Silverlight Media Framework has also been updated to version 1.1 which includes the latest SmoothStreamingMediaElement from Beta 2 of the Smooth Streaming Player SDK. This includes support for progressive download content in addition to Smooth Streaming format support.
Get the latest drop of the Silverlight Media Framework 1.1 on Codeplex: http://smf.codeplex.com/
