Re: Streaming video from my website

oops!

http://www.ssclassof63.com/videos/breakfast120107.wmv


"*** Tater" <Jr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OUyMAvpNIHA.484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I forgot to mention that I can stream the file in WMP by opening WMP. Choosing File|Open URL. Then type the URL to the WMV file and it will stream perfectly.

Which is -- http://www.ssclassof63.com/videos/breakfast.wmv


"*** Tater" <Jr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:egEZDjpNIHA.5980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Neil, here is the latest. I created an ASX file from the URL that you posted and it does open the WMP from the website (URL below). But I get an alert message about a codec and I don't know how to fix this (go to URL below to see alert message). The problem is, though, I wouldn't want to fix it on my machine, but on the server. Because I'm not concerned about me seeing it, but the visitors to the website. I want them to be able to click a link and have it open. Don't want them to have to go through a lot of prep work to see a 20 second video. Most, probably, wouldn't know how to configure it or wouldn't want to go through all the hassel. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot.

http://www.ssclassof63.com/videos/streaming.asx


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2h19l3dlj13n26uaoq18tcq7djc8epc731@xxxxxxxxxx
OK, immediately I can see the likely issue - your apache server is
misconfigured, it's sendin text/plain MIME type instead of
video/x-ms-asf which you need to send for WMV video.

Here are the headers sent by your server :

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:24:49 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8
mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.9 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
Last-Modified: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:34:33 GMT
ETag: "60c004-1627b5-4752b469"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1451957
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain



The first step is to fix the MIME type using the settings detailed at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms867184.aspx#mime_topic4

Just edit httpd.conf in a text editor, adding the lines (copy+paste
with each item on a separate line) and restart the apache process.

Once that's done, try it and I'll check again if it's still not up.

You probably at some point would want to consider updating that web
server - apache 1.3 and php 4.3 are pretty old now, and have some
security bugs which can be fixed in the newer (2.0 and php5) versions.

Other tips : In the object tags, you don't need standby or codebase
attributes, they were only really used in old WMP6.4 player. In IE,
classid is sufficient, however you would be best specifying a
type="video/x-ms-wmv" attribute for other browsers too.

There's more in-depth info on this site about web server streaming :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/webserver.aspx

PS - hope you had a nice breakfast ;-)

HTH
Cheers - Neil




On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 18:41:05 -0600, "*** Tater" <Jr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Neil, thanks for the reply. Here's the URL.

http://www.ssclassof63.com/videos/breakfast.htm


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0p76l3phtg0fkc0abt5ifskfrcpqv0n6be@xxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 08:15:21 -0600, "*** Tater" <Jr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I've tried every <object><embed> script that I have found on the Internet
but cannot get streaming video and my WMV file to work from from my
website.
I can download it from my website, with no problem, but I want streaming
video. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks for any help.

Whats the website URL ? I'll take a look and find out what's wrong.

It's quicker than asking you to post bits of code from random snippets
- in my experience they're usually incomplete and don't have the
actual thing that's breaking.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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