# ABR and Live player with MS Smooth/Silverlight

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/abr-and-live-player-with-ms-smooth-silverlight/42743>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** media-players-and-devices\
**Created:** [April 29, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/abr-and-live-player-with-ms-smooth-silverlight/42743 "2014-04-29T14:10:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Anh-Dung\_LE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@Anh-Dung\_LE](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anh-Dung_LE)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/abr-and-live-player-with-ms-smooth-silverlight/42743/1 "2014-04-29T14:10:14Z")

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Hi all,

As described in title, how can I create a simple/dummy player (just play the source link) of ABR (the smil file) and stream with MS Smooth? Because I tested with [www.wowza.com/testplayers](https://www.wowza.com/testplayers) it worked perfectly. But when I tried to create my own Silverlight application with Smooth streaming, all I could play was the vod, not live nor smil file.

Can you give me some advice for this ?

Thank you

Regards,

Anh-Dzung

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 7:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/abr-and-live-player-with-ms-smooth-silverlight/42743/2 "2014-04-29T07:36:44Z")

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Have you configured your application correctly?

Set the HTTPStreamers property to:

```auto
smoothstreaming

```

And set the Streams/LiveStreamPacketizers property to:

```auto
smoothstreamingpacketizer

```

If you aren’t using Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0 or later, you must add the following property to the HTTPStreamer/Properties container in [install-dir]/conf/[application]/Application.xml (be sure to get the correct Properties container; there are several in the Application.xml file):

```auto
<Property>
    <Name>smoothStreamingUseSMILBitrates</Name>
    <Value>true</Value>
    <Type>Boolean</Type>
</Property>

```

For more detailed information, please review this guide:

How to do adaptive bitrate streaming

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/abr-and-live-player-with-ms-smooth-silverlight/42743/3 "2014-05-02T20:10:52Z")

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Anh-Dzung,

The Silverlight smooth players in the Wowza /examples folder include source. You can modify in Visual Studio (or Expression, but limited)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Anh-Dung\_LE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@Anh-Dung\_LE](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anh-Dung_LE)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/abr-and-live-player-with-ms-smooth-silverlight/42743/4 "2014-04-29T14:55:25Z")

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> Have you configured your application correctly?
> 
> Set the HTTPStreamers property to:
> 
> ```auto
> smoothstreaming
> 
> ```
> 
> And set the Streams/LiveStreamPacketizers property to:
> 
> ```auto
> smoothstreamingpacketizer
> 
> ```
> 
> If you aren’t using Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0 or later, you must add the following property to the HTTPStreamer/Properties container in [install-dir]/conf/[application]/Application.xml (be sure to get the correct Properties container; there are several in the Application.xml file):
> 
> ```auto
> <Property>
> <Name>smoothStreamingUseSMILBitrates</Name>
> <Value>true</Value>
> <Type>Boolean</Type>
> </Property>
> 
> ```
> 
> For more detailed information, please review this guide:
> 
> How to do adaptive bitrate streaming
> 
> Salvadore

Hi Salvadore,

yes, I have all the configurations up and running. When I tried to play with wowza tesplayers, with works well with all (vod/live/smil, I can see it change the bitrate as well). But when I tried with my simple app or even with sample from Wowza, it showed the bitrate, but black screen. Actually the ABR is running well with Adobe HDS. I guess that could be the problem of silverlight versions between the online testplayer and samples.

Regards