MSS (Microsoft Smooth Streaming)

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Written by BlazingCDN

September 24, 2024

To enable streaming in MSS format add the /media=mss/ parameter to the link. The link will return an xml manifest to the manifest.mpd file. Various options are available::

  • /media=mss/ – segment size is 10 seconds, without keyframe alignment
  • /media=mss2/ – segment size is 2 seconds, without keyframe alignment
  • /media=mss5/ – segment size is 5 seconds, without keyframe alignment
  • /media=mssA/ – average segment size is 10 seconds, keyframe alignment enabled.

The actual segment size will vary, if there are more than ten seconds between keyframes – there may be empty segments.

Example:

				
					http://video.blazingcdn2.net/key=u-Myh9XWUXP1TMTHaRTnsQ/media=mss5/output.mp4