Re: DURATION ELEMENT

Hi,

Thanks for your input, not related to Coull.tv but I do own the worldwide
trademark on "Coull".

I have wote an asx file by hand just the basics and still no joy, this is
what the asx file now looks like, this works fine in Media Player 9 but not
10.

<ASX VERSION="3.0">
<TITLE>Test Broadcaster</TITLE>
<ENTRY ClientSkip = "no" SKIPIFREF="no">
<TITLE>Test Stream</TITLE>
<DURATION VALUE="00:03:00" />
<AUTHOR>Test Author</AUTHOR>
<COPYRIGHT>Copyright 2005, All Rights Reserved.</COPYRIGHT>
<MOREINFO HREF="http://server/"; />
<REF HREF="http://streams/2005"; />
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> Well, to start this discussion it's omportant to consider the
> behaviour of media player with multiple REF elements. The SDK says :
>
> "Important Once Windows Media Player establishes a connection to a
> referenced piece of content, it ignores all other REF elements in that
> ENTRY, whether the connection terminates normally or abnormally."
>
> So although it might appear to select a random stream, it's more
> likely that the player is working its way through until it finds a
> stream which is live (for mms or encoder streams) and uses a codec
> which it's got installed.
>
> It's impossible to tell from your example if this is happening in your
> case. But what I would suggest is that if you're intending to handle
> multiple bitrate streams, the best place to do that is on the mms
> server, not by using playlists to afford failover to a supported or
> available bitrate given the player's connection speed.
>
> In that case, you can create a multiple bitrate encoded file, and let
> the mms server negotiate with the client player for the best overall
> bitrate, which it selects from the stream. Create the MBR file in WM
> Encoder or subsequently using WM Stream Editor (or programatically)
>
> I think an additional difficulty possible is in combining HTMLView
> with content encoded as video rather than audio - the two stream types
> are mutually incompatible (they both must be shown in the now playing
> area) so again, from your example, it's impossible to determine the
> interactions. Again, we can't tell from the example if the aspx page
> in HTMLView has any negative interaction with the player. I wouldn't
> be surprised if you were also trying to embed a player within the
> HTMLView area (possible but excruciating to troubleshoot).
>
> All you can do in this case is to systematically reduce the number of
> permutations of 'things to go wrong' until you can isolate a specific
> cause, by removing all but one REF and adding them back individually
> and finally adding back the HTMLView.
>
> PS - You're not linked to Coull TV in Bristol are you ?
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
>
> On Sun, 8 May 2005 14:01:09 -0700, "Dr. Paul Caesar - CoullByte (UK)
> Limited" <DrPaulCaesarCoullByteUKLimited@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >For some reason since windows media 10 the duration element has stopped
> >working correctly.
> >
> >When a user clicks one of our web sites an asx file is automatically
> >generated using asp.net. Media player some times just stops or it plays a
> >random stream, usually the 32k. The auto generated asx file is as follows,
> >urls changed slightly for security:
> >
> ><ASX VERSION="3.0">
> > <TITLE>Title</TITLE>
> > <ABSTRACT>Abstract</ABSTRACT>
> > <AUTHOR>Author</AUTHOR>
> > <COPYRIGHT>Copyright</COPYRIGHT>
> > <ENTRY ClientSkip = "no">
> > <TITLE>Stream Title</TITLE>
> > <AUTHOR>Stream Author</AUTHOR>
> > <ABSTRACT>Stream Description</ABSTRACT>
> > <COPYRIGHT>Stream Copyright</COPYRIGHT>
> > <PARAM NAME="Genre" VALUE=""/>
> > <PARAM NAME="composer" VALUE=""/>
> > <PARAM NAME="rating" VALUE=""/>
> > <PARAM NAME="Album" VALUE=""/>
> > <MOREINFO HREF="http://website/"; />
> > <REF HREF="http://streams7/stream/2005"; />
> > <DURATION VALUE="00:1:00"/>
> > <REF HREF="http://streams/2005"; />
> > <REF HREF="http://streams:8006/"; />
> > <REF HREF="http://streams2:8712/"; />
> > <REF HREF="mms://streams3/hardcore" />
> > <REF HREF="mms://stream3/hardcore_low" />
> > <PARAM name="HTMLView" value="http://webserver/mediapage.aspx?ChannelID=1"/>
> > </ENTRY>
> ></ASX>
> >
> >Any help would be great, thanks. (duration set to 1 minute for testing)
>
>
.

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