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Microsoft® Windows Media® Resource Kit (Pro-Resource Kit)

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Despite it being three years since the release of this book, it remains the definitive guide to dealing with most Windows Media Streaming issues. To date, it's the single most useful book available on working with the WMA, WMV, and ASF formats. Starting with the basics of explaining the difference between streaming and downloading, the book immediately jumps into all the nitty-gritty details related to encoding audio and video files for streaming, the complex considerations for outfitting a streaming server, when to use unicast or multicast, creation of on-the-fly server side playlists, and some of the most comprehensive compression formulas available. While there are obviously competing alternatives to the Windows Media content delivery solutions, the Windows Media Resource Kit provides a compelling argument for why the Windows Media solution may be among the most effective available. Yes, Windows Media Player 10 is out now and Windows Media Player 11 is coming soon, but the information contained in this guide will be relevant for content delivery at least until the release of Windows Vista. I hesitate to call this the bible of Windows Media content creation and management, but it comes close.

I thought that the Media player was used for videos, music and online content. While this is true there is so much more that can be done with the application and this book will help guide you through.

You'll find ways to create and manage video streaming sites, as well as creating and playing movie trailers. Yopu be given the ability to setup and take care of the Intranet media server and services.

The authors have done just about everything for you except create the final presentation. They also included a cd with the book with a couple of useful and handy utilities like Producer and the SDK.

Overall this book takes you from the beginning of the process to the Web Portal and beyond. The only limits you have is your imagination.

Just received this book, and am thoroughly dissapointed that it doesn't match its description.

This book is a very high level description of the infrastructure and PC-level details required to create a website that streams video. That should be it's title, or at least the Amazon descrition.

If that's what you are looking to do - then this book will get you started. However, if you are looking for details of how to use windows media in applications (as I was) - this isn't the book.

Aos brasileiros que buscam conhecimento sobre streaming. Esse livro é uma ótima fonte de conhecimento, visto que năo é fácil encontrar isso no Brasil. Podem comprar que é muito bom. Ele aborda desde técnicas básicas de encoding até alguns cases mais complexos.

This book is really a complete waste of money - it can only be used for developing quick and dirty solutions using the windows media player and so on.
I wouldn't recommend this book even to my most hateful enemy. Unfortunately I was deceived by its looks.