1.3 Overview
The MSBD Protocol is used for transferring a live stream of audio-visual content from a server to a single client or to multiple clients. For example, the MSBD Protocol might be used when transmitting the digitized sound and images of a lecture from a computer that is encoding the lecture in real time to another computer that is running the appropriate streaming media server software, such as Windows Media Services version 4.1.
The MSBD Protocol can also be used for transmitting a live stream from one Windows Media Services server installation to another. Certain versions of Windows Media Player<1> also support the MSBD Protocol and can use it to monitor a live stream by connecting to a server that is running Windows Media Services or by connecting directly to a real-time encoder.