Re: Problem Connecting to Encoder

I didn't say it wouldn't respond to http requests. I said it wouldn't
respond as a web server - there's a big difference. http is the
transport protocol and html is the vehicle for content in the case of
a web server.

In the case of media encoder, it doesn't send any web content (html)
so there's just no way for IE to connect to it as if it *were* a web
server. So, IE gets the "Bad Request" response from the encoder
because it doesn't know how to make a "good request"

Media player *does* know how to make a "good request" but it's not
getting HTML data, it's getting sent a media data stream.

Consider the http connection used by the encoder as a continuous
stream of packets, a one-way street - not a discrete package with a
start, middle and end like you'd get with a web page sent from a web
server.

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:31:08 -0700, "ve" <ve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Just curious Neil. If the encoder does not respond to IE http, then why do
>we enter http://<hostname>:<port>. Does this mean it is over HTTP protocol?
>Or IE does not have plugin to media player to play it?
>
>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 07:39:17 -0700, "Jeff"
>> <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >I have been trying to play around with the Media Encoder to broadcast a web
>> >cam. It seems to be working fine and I can connect to the encoder via media
>> >player on the machine doing the encoding, but can not connect to it from any
>> >other machines on my LAN. I've tried connecting to it with IE and Media
>> >Player, but get nothing but errors. The IE error was 400: Bad Request.
>>
>> IE is not going to be able to connect to your encoder using HTTP. The
>> encoder is not running a web server which can respond to IE's request.
>>
>> The place to enter the encoder URL is in the File-> Open URL menu item
>> of Media Player. WMP knows how to negotiate the HTTP stream with the
>> encoder.
>>
>> Cheers - Neil
>>
>>

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