Learn how to develop and deliver ultrafast, ultracool digital media solutions using the powerfully enhanced Windows Media 9 Series platform. Created by a digital media on Microsoft’s Windows Media team, this guide walks you through platform architecture architecture and components—providing inside insights, real-world programming scenarios, and reusable code samples to help power your own streaming media solutions. You get step-by-step instructions on how to create applications to encode Windows Media files and streams, serve and receive audio and video streams, create customized players, and even build a complete broadcasting system—your own Internet radio station.
Discover how to:
- Develop 20 complete applications that use Windows Media to create, distribute, and play digital media over the Internet
- Create a custom version of Windows Media Encoder to convert MP3, WAV, AVI, and other multimedia files to the Windows Media format
- Program the server that runs on Windows Media Services to publish files on demand, broadcast unicast streams, and multicast to all listeners at once
- Develop unique UIs for Windows Media Player using banners, borders, embedded Web pages, and the skin programming language
- Add the Player to a Web site and a Web site to the Player
- Make the encoder, server, and Player work together to create end-to-end multimedia applications
- Build an Internet radio station with dynamic playlists that respond to listener requestsGet sample programs, music files, utilities, and more on CD
CD features:
- Programs and forms for all the book’s examples
- Sample music files to encode, serve, or play
- Essential Windows Media utilities, including Windows Media Encoder
- Complete Windows Media 9 Series Jumpstart CD contents, including demos of multichannel audio, high definition video, and fast streaming
- Fully searchable eBook
For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.
