throttling control in Windows Media Service

Question

Hello everyone,

I am wondering whether on Windows Server 2003, in Windows Media Service, we could setup/configure throttling settings for any file types (even the file types not supported by streaming by Windows Media Service), for example, setup .flv file download/streaming throttling bit rate to 100k or setup the bitrate throttling control to the same as encoded bit rate.

I have searched Windows Media Service manual for a long time, but can not find this feature exlpicitly documented.

BTW: I am just curious what is the behavior of Windows Media Service if we put unsupported streaming file types, like .flv flies.

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

I thought that Windows Media Services supported only a subset of file types (and flv is not one of them).
If you want throttling control for flv you will need Flash Streaming Server or Apache with the throttling mod or IIS 7 with the throttling module.