Walkthrough: PlayReady Protected Smooth Streaming Windows Store App

The Smooth Streaming Client SDK for Windows 8 enables developers to build Windows Store apps that can play on-demand and live Smooth Streaming content. In addition to the basic playback of Smooth Streaming content, the SDK also provides rich features like Microsoft PlayReady protection, quality level restriction, Live DVR, audio stream switching, listening for status updates (such as quality level changes) and error events, and so on. For more information of the supported features, see the release notes.

This walkthrough describes how to create an app that provides basic playback of PlayReady protected Smooth Streaming content. The following topics are included in this walkthrough:

Topic	Description
Prerequisites	Describes the software requirements to develop a PlayReady protected Smooth Streaming app.
Creating a Basic Smooth Streaming Store App	Describes the steps required to build a basic Smooth Streaming Windows Store app in Visual Studio.
Playing Back a PlayReady Protected Smooth Streaming File	Describes how to add PlayReady protection to the Windows Store app so that it can play back a Smooth Streaming file.