web performance test for video streaming

Question

Hello everyone,

I have some streamed video setup on IIS. And I want to find or write some tool to test the performance, such as max supported simultenaous users/connections, and I also want to test such performance under user activity like pause, rewind or forward.

Any ideas? I am using Windows Server 2008 x64 + IIS 7.0 Media Pack to setup the media server.

EDIT: I am just thinking about whether we could write some client program to start multiple threads, and in each thread to invoke Windows Media Player (or what so ever player) API to playback the media? Is this solution feasible?

thanks in advance, George