windows-media-server

Windows Media Server Streaming from database

Is it possible to somehow set up WMS to stream the content from a database only using Windows Server 2003 Standard edition? I know it can be done using custom-plugin data source but that is only enabled with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. ...

Windows media server doesn't stop after playing 1 file from list

I'm playing Windows Media audio, triggered by an ASX meta-file which looks like this: <asx version="3.0" BannerBar="none"> <title>Foo</title> <author>Bar</author> <copyright>Baz</copyright> <moreinfo href="http://company.com/"/&gt; <entry> <title>Audio Stream</title> <ref href="mms://media1.company.com/bof.asf"/> </e...

Silverlight 2 via Windows Media Services 9

I have been using the Silverlight 2 Media Player that comes with Expression Blend and also the sl2videoplayer from CodePlex and the issue I have come across is that I am unable to forward or rewind the video when it is coming via WMS 9. If I host the same video on a IIS 6 website, it works fine. WMS was originally hosted on the internal...

Windows Media Services 2008 Programming

Hi All, I'm looking in to Windows Media Services 2008 development. I've been able to set it up and create a publish point using Server Manager in Win 2008. But what I really want to do is to do this programatically. I'm currently downloading windows 2008 SDK since it should have support for media services programming. What I want to kn...

Play mms:// streams on my site

Hi Overflowers! I'm building a "channel chooser" for a set of mms:// streams (Microsoft Media Server): a simple web GUI that lets the user chose which channel to listen to. For reference, here is the list of streams I'd like to use. I would like users to be able to play those streams on my site with a simple "play/stop" control. Nothing...

Replacing a Windows Media Server (weekly radio show).

I'm moving a weekly live radio show from Windows Media Server and am looking for an alternative to accomplish the same task. We are decommissioning the WMS box and would rather just run it on another platform. I know there is shoutcast and icecast2 but unless I'm missing something they do live streams of prerecorded material. We stream o...

How to grab thumbnail every X seconds from *live* Windows Media Stream

I want to provide a choice between streaming 'channels', if you will, in a web application. These are Windows Media streams of live events that are being broadcast from a Windows Media Services 9 distribution network. I want to provide a relatively recent thumbnail image of the stream (as a user, you would expect to see this), but altho...

Windows Media Service 2008 authentication plug-in sample?

Hello everyone, I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 + Windows Media Service 2008 on Windows Server 2008. I want to develop a custom authentication sample. I want to use C#. But what I find is C++ samples. For example, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd892688%28VS.85%29.aspx Any simple C# samples? thanks in advance, George ...

Programmatically Create / Delete Windows Media Services Publishing Point

I'm looking for a .NET wrapper to programmatically Create and Delete Windows Media Services publishing points through WMI. I can't be the only one to ever want to do this through .NET, so before I re-invent the wheel, anyone seen any code samples out there to do this? ...

does silverlight support streaming through mms?

Hello everyone, I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows Media Service. At the client side, I want to use Silverlight to play the media file. I am using VSTS 2008 + Silverlight 3 + ASP.Net + .Net 3.5. I want to know whether Silverlight supports play mms streaming file from Windows Media Service? If yes, any code samples that I can...

W2k8 RC1: Windows Media Servers (WMS) as proxy

I will have one streaming-server (W2k8, unknown streaming protocol [rtsp, mss, http]) and half dozen streaming-servers as proxies to save bandwidth. I have read the documentation and installed the modules, but I am unsure how I have to configure the proxy's according to http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ee126142(en-us,WS.10).as...