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Questions about Windows Media Encoder and Windows Media Service

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Sam

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Jul 7, 2009, 8:37:01 PM7/7/09
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From the internet, I found that both Windows Media Encoder and Windows Media
Services can support being a straming server. I would like to ask what is the
difference between them?

As I know that, we can download the Windows Media Encoder without paying any
money. However, we need to buy a Server version OS in order to get the
Windows Media Services.

Can someone please tell me the difference between them as I am going to
deploy a streaming server.

Thanks a lot.

Yours,
Sam

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]

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Jul 14, 2009, 12:23:30 PM7/14/09
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On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:37:01 -0700, Sam <S...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>From the internet, I found that both Windows Media Encoder and Windows Media
>Services can support being a straming server. I would like to ask what is the
>difference between them?

No - windows media services is the streaming component of windosw
server. It is only responsible for sending pre-encoded audio and/or
video streams to players (usually up to 1500+ at a time).

It can send both files and live streams created by the encoder.

Windows media encoder is a program to create files and live streams to
send to the server. It has a limited capacity to accept client
connections, which are intended to be media servers (5 by default, up
to 50 by a registry change) but it's not got any real streaming
features built in.

A side effect of the client connection using http is that WMP can
connect to it, often for testing the stream. It's not reliable for
large numbers of conections (over 5-20) which is where you'd use
edge/distribution servers which are designed to be reliable for this
task.

>As I know that, we can download the Windows Media Encoder without paying any
>money. However, we need to buy a Server version OS in order to get the
>Windows Media Services.
>
>Can someone please tell me the difference between them as I am going to
>deploy a streaming server.


HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2009
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Sam

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Aug 4, 2009, 2:06:01 AM8/4/09
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I know it is a little bit late.
But thanks a lot with heart. You have helped me a lot.
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