【摘要】：互联网络的普及给人们的工作生活带来很大的方便，人们可以通过网络来浏览信息、查资料、聊天、收发邮件、网上购物、资料下载。同时人们也一直在致力于通过网络来传输多媒体资料，从起初的提供多媒体资料下载到现在的在线观看，人们无需经过漫长的下载等待过程，只要经过短暂的延时就能观看或听到自己所选媒体资料，这就现在流行的视频点播应用。

　　现在搞视频点播的公司很多，这方面的应用软件也不少，但有一家公司多年来一直在为大家免费提供在线视频服务支持，却长期没被大家所意识到，这就是微软公司。本文以微软流媒体服务器为基础，用它来实现视频点播、视频广播，实现实况转播及其它方面的一些应用，还介绍了有关流媒体技术的一些基础知识，从而为流媒体应用系统提供了解决途径。

【关键词】：流媒体；视频点播；视频广播；实况转播

【Abstract】：The popularity of the Internet to bring great convenience to people's working life, people can browse information through network, information search, chat, e-mail, online shopping, data download. The same time, people have been dedicated to the transmission of multimedia data through the network to provide multimedia downloads from the beginning to now watch online, people do not need to wait long download process, after a short delay will be able to watch or hear his own selected media, which is now the popular video-on-demand application.    

Companies to engage in video on demand, this application software is also a lot, baton company for many years been in the free online video service support, has long not everyone realize that this is Microsoft. This is based on Microsoft’s streaming media server, and uses it to video on demand, video broadcasting, live broadcast and some applications, some of the basics of streaming media technology provides a solution for streaming media applications ways. 

【Key words】：Streaming Media; Video on Demand; Video Broadcasting; Live broadcast