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 support for audio-only and video-only streams
Azure Media Player itself does not support audio-only or video-only streams as per the bottom of...
Date: 06/21/2017
Encoder changes within Azure Media Services now create ISMC file
Beginning in June 2016, when you encode videos with the Media Encoder Standard within Azure Media...
Date: 07/08/2016
Progressive download and streaming differences with Azure Media Services
<note: I plan on occasionally editing this page with updated information. I may not document the...
Date: 03/23/2016
Listing more than 1000 assets with the PHP SDK for Azure Media Services
To get the list of assets from Azure Media Services in the PHP SDK you use the getAssetList()...
Date: 11/05/2015
500 error when streaming adaptive bitrate MP4 set content from Azure Media Services
If you are using Azure Media Services to deliver video content and encoded your video with one of...
Date: 06/10/2015
Additional steps needed to enable multicast logging for Windows Media Services 2008 R2
Multicast logging can be useful when you want to collect statistical information about the client...
Date: 10/21/2014
Unable to delete an Azure Media Services live streaming channel
When you use Azure Media Services to create a live streaming channel, a program is also created. A...
Date: 10/06/2014
A Change in the Default URL Type When Publishing a MP4 using Azure Management Portal
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
Job record limit for Windows Azure Media Encoder After processing a large number of videos with the...
Date: 05/05/2014
Windows Media Services not supported on Windows Server 2012
[edited 2016-11-24 to include Windows Server 2016 info] I've been asked several times if Windows...
Date: 11/14/2012
Error 400 Bad Request when using CloudMediaContext with Azure Media Services
When I was developing my first Azure Media Services application based on the how-to guide, I had a...
Date: 06/08/2012
Azure Media Services is live!
In April Microsoft announced Azure Media Services at NAB in Las Vegas. This enables encoding,...
Date: 06/07/2012
Why you see packet fragments with WMS multicast
First a bit of terminology that will help keep things clear. For the purposes of this discussion I...
Date: 04/16/2011
Getting Windows Media Load Simulator to work on modern operating systems
The Windows Media Load Simulator (occasionally abbreviated as 'loadsim') tool was created to help...
Date: 08/06/2010
Easiest way to use Smooth Streaming on the client
One of the things I’ve found with Smooth Streaming is that people have no idea how to create a...
Date: 07/23/2010
Causes of 408's in a Windows Media Services log
One common question I get from Windows Media Services admins who have looked through their log files...
Date: 11/11/2009
Using HTTP Referer to prevent deep linking to a WMS server
For a number of years now I've had customers ask me about how to prevent deep linking from random...
Date: 10/16/2009
Using Windows Media Services 2008 Cache/Proxy plug-in
One of the main differences between Windows Media Services 9.1 on Windows 2003 and WMS 2008 on...
Date: 08/18/2009
WMP debug page to dump player events
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
Forcing the embedded player to reconnect when an error occurs
In the next few posts, I am going to discuss high availability scenarios for times when you...
Date: 07/14/2009
How to maintain an encoder/server connection on a problematic network
I occasionally get contacted by customers that are having problems keeping their Windows Media...
Date: 07/09/2009
Silverlight installation requires the SSE CPU instruction set
One of the guys on my team recently tried installing Silverlight 2.0 on one of his older systems. He...
Date: 05/27/2009
Fix for WMS 503 issue released
Since this is a fairly major issue for a number of people that are running Windows Media Services...
Date: 03/30/2009
Troubleshooting the Silverlight MediaElement 4001 Error
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
Getting your CD or DVD listed so it shows automatically in Windows Media Player
When you are ripping CDs with Windows Media Player, the player can automatically go out to the...
Date: 01/15/2009
Windows Media Player now works with Kerberos
You may have seen in a network trace that when Windows Media Player connects to Windows Media...
Date: 12/10/2008
WMP unable to connect to WMS 2008; WMS returning 503 Service Unavailable
I've talked to a number of people that are having problems streaming from Windows Media Services...
Date: 09/05/2008
Cheap load balancing using an ASX as created by an ASP
This load balancing solution will cost you a grand total of about 10 minutes of time. Now I will say...
Date: 08/26/2008
Using Wallclock Scheduling in WMS to start a broadcast at a specific time
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
Windows Media Player Protocol Rollover
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
Easy automatic ASX generation In my first post, I thought it would be helpful to show how to use...
Date: 03/20/2008