Playlist Basics
A playlist represents an ordered list of the media items that the server can stream to a client. Typically, a playlist is stored in a file, but you can also define a playlist as the media items in a particular directory or some other source. Windows Media Services uses playlist parser plug-ins to read the playlist and create a playlist object in memory. The syntax of the playlist object must conform to the SMIL 2.0 specification. Playlist basics are discussed in the following sections.