The race to get onto the Internet and harness its power to communicate, to teach, to sell, and to entertain has made innovation an imperative and the norm not quite good enough. That's why companies rely on Microsoft NetShow to help them find more effective and interesting ways to do business by adding powerful streaming multimedia-over today's networks.
Microsoft NetShow 2.0: The Powerful Streaming Multimedia Solution
You can start adding streaming audio and video today with Microsoft NetShow 2.0. NetShow is a platform for streaming multimedia over networks that range from low bandwidth dial-up Internet connections to high bandwidth switched local area networks. From simple audio to sophisticated interactive Web-based applications, companies use NetShow to offer new streaming content for applications such as training, corporate communications, entertainment, and advertising to users all over the world.

NetShow 2.0 Key Benefits:

  • Powerful broadcast system because it’s built on Windows NT Server and provides the reliability and scalability you can rely on even in large-scale deployments.
  • Easy because the NetShow system and its components are readily available and inexpensive to own and operate.
  • High-Quality because NetShow uses state-of-the-art compression technology to provide best of breed audio and video feeds, even over constrained bandwidth networks like the Internet or corporate networks.

Types of Content NetShow Enables

To give you some idea of what type of NetShow content you can play or create, click on the type below. (Make sure you have the NetShow Player installed first.) Check out the NetShow Gallery for lots more content and many links to third-party sites on the Internet that use NetShow.

ASF Type Description

Music!		Audio OnlyMusic encoded at 110 Kbps using the MPEG Layer 3 stereo audio codec. Also available at 23 Kbps also using MPEG Layer 3 mono audio codec.

Directions		Illustrated AudioDirections to Microsoft, using illustrations and photos scanned-in and matched up to the audio track. 72 Kbps.

C-SPAN		Live FeedC-SPAN (you must be connected to the Internet to receive this.) Feed courtesy of AudioNet.
Darren MotamedyStored Video
Music video by renowned jazz artist Darren Motamedy. Written for 1 Mbps, also available at 100 Kbps and 28.8 Kbps

Fashion!		ApplicationPresentation of fashion predictions. Uses Advanced HTML and the ability to send script events in the NetShow stream -- such as captions, URL flips, and streamed Macromedia Flash events. Written for 110 Kbps.

What's New in NetShow 2.0?

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