3.2 Media Services Protocols

Media services protocols enable network communications between a client and a server that hosts and delivers media across a network. Media services protocols enable content to be streamed over the Internet or an intranet as a unicast stream. Through these protocols, a computer can run a media encoder, a media server, and several client computers running media play clients.

The media services protocols are fully described in the Media Streaming Server Protocols Overview [MS-MSSOD].