Anthropocentric
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Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:49 am Post subject:
Concurrently Streaming Many SWF Files |
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We have a huge library (many thousands) of SWF files (not FLV files).
We need to effectively stream these files to as many simultaneous
users as possible.
We have a web site that serves as a menu to all of our content. Our
users click on a piece of content, we have multiple Microsoft IIS
servers simply streaming these files via HTTP. That is, when a user
clicks on a file in the web site, it begins playing immediately, even
though it has not completed downloading in full. This streaming is
the default behavior of SWF files and the Macromedia Flash player
I understand, however, that IIS is not optimized to serve many
simultaneous, ongoing, user requests.
What is the best way to stream these files reliably to as many
simultaneous users as possible? What is the technology architecture?
Can Windows Media Server Help?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:
Concurrently Streaming Many SWF Files |
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Hi,
Windows Media Server cannot stream SWF files. Please refer
to the following link on the file formats WMS can stream:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/serve
r/faq.aspx?
section=USINGWINDOWSMEDIASERVICES&question=USINGWINDOWSMEDI
ASERVICES3#NAME_USINGWINDOWSMEDIASERVICES
If you had WMV/ASF files, you can use WMS to stream them
to several users and it would scale well compared to IIS
in the same scenario.
Ravi
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We have a huge library (many thousands) of SWF files (not
FLV files).
We need to effectively stream these files to as many
simultaneous
users as possible.
We have a web site that serves as a menu to all of our
content. Our
users click on a piece of content, we have multiple
Microsoft IIS
servers simply streaming these files via HTTP. That is,
when a user
clicks on a file in the web site, it begins playing
immediately, even
though it has not completed downloading in full. This
streaming is
the default behavior of SWF files and the Macromedia
Flash player
I understand, however, that IIS is not optimized to serve
many
simultaneous, ongoing, user requests.
What is the best way to stream these files reliably to as
many
simultaneous users as possible? What is the technology
architecture?
Can Windows Media Server Help?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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