Frequently Asked Questions
What is Smooth Streaming Media?
Smooth Streaming Media is a new protocol for delivering HD audio and video from Microsoft.
Smooth Streaming provides a High Quality viewing experience as the quality of the video and audio served to the client adapts to the viewers connection speed.
Jaksta can detect and download Smooth Streaming MajorVersion 1. Jaksta will download the highest quality audio and video stream available in the streams manifest.
The resulting ISMV file is a fragemented MP4 file. The only player that can play these files is Microsofts Expression Encoder 3 (with Smooth Streaming). It also allows you to convert these files into other common formats. Microsofts Expression Encoder costs around 30 USD and is available from the Microsoft store.
The following sites demonstrate Smooth Streaming Media:
