Re: Cant connect to some streams with MP11

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No, their players also support rtsp or http. Some corporate firewalls
may block rtsp (UDP inbound) traffic. In those cases, the http stream
over port 80 is used as fallback.

The player will automatically fall back to the second ref stream
inside an entry element, if the first stream is inaccessible (eg
connection blocked by firewall)

Side note :

That's the general rollover behaviour expected - if you had several
servers and one or two were often overloaded, you'd provide a list of
alternate URLs here so the player could sequentially try them and find
an available server.

If you're really sneaky [read, clever], you can do this by generating
the ASX on the fly - interrrogating the server load, then reordering
the ref elements in the ASX to put the least loaded servers first in
the list, in a round robin arrangement,

Cheers - Neil


On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:59:00 -0800, Steve
<Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks. I'll give this a try and report back. By changing the .asx file from
mms to http/rtsp, will that break w/ users that have MP9 or lower?

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:15:00 -0800, Steve
<Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just installed MP11. I cannot connect to the following stream:
http://216.229.16.90/opbp/kfrm.asx
I have access to change the .asx file on the web server.


Change this :

<entry>
<ref href = "mms://ONLINE.OMAHAPLAYBYPLAY.COM/kfrm"/>
</entry>


To read :

<entry>
<ref href = "rtsp://ONLINE.OMAHAPLAYBYPLAY.COM/kfrm"/>
<ref href = "http://ONLINE.OMAHAPLAYBYPLAY.COM/kfrm"/>
</entry>


http://www.mbcwebradio.com/kbbn.asx


See above.


I am able to connect to these streams just fine with MP9.


The mms pseudo-protocol was deprecated starting with WMP9. It's now no
longer available in the player, so you have to check the setup of your
media server or use the workaround above to get protocol rollover if
you haven't got access to the media server.


is something to do w/ the .asx file configuration or the version of MP Server
that is being used, or the server configuration.

Both.

I can connect to other streams w/ MP11 such as
http://gcstream.waittmedia.com/kkar
without any problems.


As you'll notice, that URL is directly specifying a publishing point
using the http protocol. If you changed that to mms it'd probably not
work either (it *eventually* works in WMP7, but takes about 30 seconds
to achieve the protocol rollover to http)

Cheers - Neil
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