Microsoft's Smooth Streaming (MSS)

To stream media over HTTP using Microsoft's Smooth Streaming protocol chose the “Smooth Streaming” preset from the encoding.com client interface, watch folder, or API.

NOTE: Because the Smooth Streaming output creates multiple files from a single source file you have the option to tar the output tar = yes, in which case your file extension should be set to .tar.  For example ftp://encoding:XXXXXXX99@ftp.ord1-1.websitesettings.com/MSS/myMSSvideo.tar  In this case all multiple outputs will be combined in a single tar ball for you to unpack on your own at a later date.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The extension of your video should be set to .ism.  For example ftp://encoding:XXXXXXX99@ftp.ord1-1.websitesettings.com/MSS/myMSSvideo.ism
In this case all of the MSS compatible files will be sent to the root directory /MSS so it is advised you create a separate directory for the MSS output.

The MSS preset will create the following outputs and send to your specified destination directory, assuming your source file name is myMSSvideo:

.ism – is the Smooth Streaming server manifest, The .ism file is the server manifest that contains a list of multiple-bit-rate media files and an identifier that points to the client manifest.
 myMSSvideo.ism

.ismc- is the Smooth Streaming client manifest. The client manifest contains metadata about audio, video, and text streams.
myMSSvideo.ismc

ismv – the Smooth Streaming video files in multiple nitrates.  Our default MSS bitrates are 300k, 600k, 120k, and 2400k however you may use any custom nitrate combinations your applications requires.
myMSSvideo_300k.ismv
myMSSvideo_600k.ismv
myMSSvideo_1200k.ismv
myMSSvideo_2400k.ismv

Output from Smooth Streaming is highly optimized to be hosted and delivered from a Micrsofot IIS web server where it supports advanced features like fast forward, rewind, metadata/binary track etc.  Smooth Streaming can also be hosted on any Apache web server with the correct configuration.  Thre are a variety of thirdparty and open source binarys to speed up your Apache configuration for Smooth Streaming. For more information about the Microsoft Smooth Streaming protocol visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17678

Example of a MSS API request:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<query>
    <action>AddMedia</action>
    <userid>XXXXXX</userid>
    <userkey>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</userkey>
    <source>http://pc-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/84161dcd2054f746e55c8c34fee8e2be_18209.mov?nocopy</source>
    <notify>sales@encoding.com</notify>
    <region>us-east-1</region>
    <format>
        <output>smooth_streaming</output>
        <destination>ftp://encoding:XXXXXXXX@ftp.ord1-1.websitesettings.com/mss/mymssvideo.ism</destination>
        <audio_bitrate>128k</audio_bitrate>
        <audio_sample_rate>48000</audio_sample_rate>
        <audio_channels_number>2</audio_channels_number>
        <framerate>24</framerate>
        <keep_aspect_ratio>yes</keep_aspect_ratio>
        <video_codec>libx264</video_codec>
        <VCodecParameters>no</VCodecParameters>
        <audio_codec>libfaac</audio_codec>
        <two_pass>no</two_pass>
        <turbo>no</turbo>
        <twin_turbo>no</twin_turbo>
        <cbr>no</cbr>
        <deinterlacing>auto</deinterlacing>
        <keyframe>48</keyframe>
        <audio_volume>100</audio_volume>
        <rotate>def</rotate>
        <strip_chapters>no</strip_chapters>
        <file_extension>tar</file_extension>
        <hint>no</hint>
        <set_rotate>source</set_rotate>
        <bitrates>300k,600k,1200k,2400k</bitrates>
        <sizes>224x0,448x0,768x0,1280x0</sizes>
        <pack_files>no</pack_files>
        <metadata>
            <copy>no</copy>
        </metadata>
    </format>
</query>

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