Re: DURATION ELEMENT

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No, I can repro it using media player 7 and 9 here so it's not version
specific. I'm still trying to determine if the duration tag is used by
the player or the server. A contact suggested that the server makes
use of this to optimise the stream (he proposed it's possible the
server loads only part of a file in response to a duration tag in the
ASX, passed by the player)

I'll try some experiments but I'm really pressed for time right now in
a development project, and it takes time to set up several streaming
servers and test/record their responses against a range of players ;-)

Cheers - Neil

On Thu, 12 May 2005 05:56:02 -0700, "Dr. Paul Caesar - CoullByte (UK)
Limited" <DrPaulCaesarCoullByteUKLimited@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Thank you for your input Neil.
>
>
>My understanding of ASX media files is a file that instructs media players
>how to present and stream media and that the content of this file overrides
>the server content.
>
>Why in Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 does our problematic stream work but
>not in Microsoft Windows Media Player 10?
>
>Also the build of Windows Media Player 10 of Windows Server 2003 with
>Service Pack 1 compared to the build on Windows XP Professional with Service
>Pack 2 handle this problematic stream differently.
>
>Build 3646 on Windows XP with SP 2 ignores the real server stream but the
>build on Windows Server 2003 with SP 1 just stops, build 3700.
>
>I am thinking that this is a bug with Windows Media Player 10 but I am
>unsure. Other colleagues of mine also believe that ASX files customise and
>override settings from the streaming server. Could you clear this up for me?
>
>Best Regards

.

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