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The Session Properties dialog box contains all of the settings that you chose when you ran the New Session Wizard, as well as some advanced settings that are only available from this dialog box. You can also create an encoding configuration from this dialog box, bypassing the New Session Wizard. This dialog box consists of six tabs, which are described below.
Sources. Use this tab to create, edit, and remove source groups.
Display Information. Use this tab to provide information about the content you are encoding, such as title, author, copyright, rating, and a description. This information is displayed when your content is played in Windows Media Player.
Attributes. Use this tab to create or edit attributes for your content. Attributes are name-value pairs that provide additional information about your content. For example, you might want to add the date that the content was edited, the name of your producer, and so on. Using the Windows Media Format 7 Software Development Kit (SDK), you can create search utilities that extract these attributes, for example, to populate a content database.
Profile. Displays the profile currently selected for this encoding configuration. Use this tab to launch Profile Manager so you can edit the currently selected custom profile or create a new one.
Output. Use this tab to select the distribution for your content. Choices include broadcasting using HTTP, encoding to a file, or both.
Advanced. Use this tab to apply time compression to your content. Using the time compression feature, you can speed up or slow down the content as it is encoded to decrease or increase the playback time. You can also define the size of the content packets that are streamed across the network. The Maximum Windows Media packet size is for single-bit-rate profiles only.