Although On-Demand Smooth Streaming takes advantage of existing audio/video files (i.e., ISMV and ISMA files), it still requires an ingest point to translate client requests into a file chunk that corresponds to the correct bit rate and time span. This ingest point can either be your own IIS server or it can be located on our network. Both types of configurations are explained below.
Note: Regardless of the ingest point used to publish your on-demand content, the server manifest file will need to be served to your clients using a CDN or an edge CNAME URL.
Before you can stream on-demand content from our network, you will need to enable the On-Demand Smooth Streaming feature. This can be performed from the On-Demand Smooth Streaming page. Once you have enabled this feature, it may take up to an hour for it to take effect. It is strongly recommended that you wait until this feature has been fully propagated throughout our network before making on-demand content available to your clients.
An alternative to taking advantage of our Smooth Streaming services is to publish your on-demand content through your own IIS server. This type of configuration requires that your Smooth Streaming presentation be located in an IIS virtual directory.
Note: For information on how to create or configure an IIS virtual directory, please refer to IIS documentation.