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Broadcast live events or stream content on demand with expertise from those who know the technology best—the Microsoft Windows Media Team. This official Resource Kit packs the technical insights and tools you need to capture, encode, distribute, and play back digital video and audio using the Windows Media 9 Series platform. You’ll play back digital video and audio using the Windows Media 9 Series platform. You’ll learn how to plan, develop, and implement basic to advanced solutions. And you get essential production and administration resources. It’s everything you need to deliver professional-quality streaming media solutions—and maximize their impact.

Get end-to-end guidance straight from the Microsoft Windows Media team.

• Know what’s involved in streaming through a hosting service, an enterprise intranet, or your own Web page
• Use vision documents and checklists to plan your solution and map out deployment
• Learn best practices for compressing content and using codecs
• Get tips for creating compelling, high-quality audio and video
• Set up production—from a single workstation to a studio—and delivery—from one server to an enterprise cluster
• Use Digital Rights Management technologies to help protect content
• Create server-side playlists that you can update on the fly
• Develop a Web portal to manage large content archives
• Test playback for live and on-demand content

About the Authors

The highly skilled experts on the Microsoft Windows Media Team, including Tricia Gill and Bill Birney, are responsible for every phase of planning, developing, deploying and supporting Windows Media Technologies.