MSS (Microsoft Smooth Streaming)

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.ahcdn.com/key=u-Myh9XWUXP1TMTHaRTnsQ/media=mss5/output.mp4