IIS Smooth Streaming

Question

Hope someone can help out here. I have been trying out the IIS Smooth Streaming for many weeks. But without much success.

On-demand Smooth Streaming

• No problems with streaming on-demand clips on LAN
• No problems with streaming on-demand clips across the web

Live streaming using file source

• No problems with live streaming a file on LAN
• Cannot live stream a file across the web
• Initiated a publishing point using AWS-EC2
• Connected Encoder Pro to publishing point
• Publishing point never gets past "Starting"

Live streaming using live webcam

• Slight problem with live streaming from my webcam on LAN
• 10 seconds lag
• After like 20 seconds, silverlight client hangs and stops requesting for chunks
• HTTP 412 - precondition failed
• Only way to rectify is to refresh the browser

• Cannot live stream from webcam across the web
• Initiated a publish point using AWS-EC2
• Connected Encoder Pro to publishing point
• Publishing point never gets past "Starting"

Things I have tried to rectify network problems

• Connecting my laptop directly to the gateway, rather than through a router
• Shutting down Windows firewall on laptop
• Initiating a AWS-EC2 with no firewall
• WireShark indicates HTTP404 and HTTP501 error when "connecting" to the publishing point from the encoder

My LAN specs

• Running Encoder, and IIS Streaming Server on Boot Camp MacBook Pro, i7, 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM
• Running Silverlight Client on i5, 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM
• Output Stream: Default configurations for H.264 IIS Smooth Streaming Low Bandwidth

Answer 1

To test streaming stuff you really need to use separate PCs as the streamer/encoder, transport server and client. Or at least start off that way. You are asking a bit too much out of that macbook pro there, especially when it comes to I/O.