Is there any way with vb.net of accomblishing MMS audio streaming?
Also, i read somewhere else within SO, that MMS streaming is no more supported by Microsoft. Is that true? Just curious..
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Here's what I dug from Googling. Wikipedia:Microsoft Media Server says:
Microsoft Media Server (MMS) is the name of Microsoft's proprietary network streaming protocol used to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services (previously called NetShow Services). MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP. The MMS default port is UDP/TCP 1755.
Microsoft deprecated MMS in favor of RTSP (TCP/UDP port 554) in 2003 with the release of the Windows Media Services 9 Series, but continued to support the MMS for some time in the interest of backwards compatibility. Support for the protocol was finally dropped in Windows Media Services 2008.
The spec for Microsoft Media Server (MMS) Protocol is public since 2008 by Microsoft:
The client can send MMS Protocol request messages to the server over the TCP connection, requesting the server to perform actions such as starting and stopping the flow of multimedia data. The multimedia data is transferred either over the same TCP connection or as a flow of UDP packets.
w:VLC media player apparently supports MMS streaming, and also has API binding to various languages, including C#.
w:Real Time Streaming Protocol lists some server implementations that supports Real Time Streaming Protocol.
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2009-08-31 12:20:57