IIS Transform Manager 1.0 Beta is a media-transform engine that enables on-demand media files to be converted in batches. One example of a media transform is transcoding Windows Media-formatted or MP4-formatted files into on-demand Smooth Streaming presentations for delivery to Silverlight clients. Another example is repackaging on-demand Smooth Streaming presentation files to the MPEG-2 Transport Stream (MPEG-2 TS) container format for delivery to Apple mobile digital devices.

Transform Manager supports a long-running, persistent job manager that integrates with a task scheduler to act on specified media file types as they arrive in specified folders (known as watch folders). A customizable job template that is bound to each watch folder describes the tasks that run when media assets are detected in the watch folder.

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