publishing point stops
From: bckwheat (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:43:56 -0700
YOU DA MAN (oops PERSON). I duplicated the "on-demand"
publishing point and pointed the source to my file and
guess what? Works as advertised. A quick question
though, would you use the broadcast publishing point
exclusively for a live stream?
Thanks for the help
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Bruce,
>
>You should look up the difference between a "on demand"
>and a "broadcast" publishing point on the WIndows Media
>Help documentation. Unless I am misunderstanding you, you
>seem to have broadcast publishing point (only a broadcast
>publishing point can be "started" - hence my conclusion).
>Can you confirm that you indeed have a broadcast
>publishing point? The icons for on demand and broadcast
>publishing points are different, so you can find it out
>on the administrator. For example, on Windows Server 2003
>default server installation, the "<Default>" publishing
>point is "On demand", and the "Sample Broadcast"
>publishing point is a "Broadcast" publishing point.
>
>
>I am thinking that you have a file that is approx. five
>minutes in length and you have a broadcast publishing
>point setup instead of an on demand publishing point. So,
>anybody who connects after 5 minutes sees nothing
>(because the file has ended past the "broadcasting" point
>and client simply receives nothing, so it stops).
>
>You should probably recreate your publishing point as
>a "on demand" publishing point (you can use the wizard to
>create publishing points in which case the wizard will
>ask for whether you want on demand or broadcast
>publishing point) and try the same scenario.
>
>Hope this makes sense.
>
>Ravi
>--
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>confers no rights.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Hi Ravi
>>Thanks for the reply. I am not sure that I follow you.
>I
>>currently have a publishing point that when I first
>start
>>the media server and the then start the "on demand"
>>publishing point "currently called beavervdo", a
>secondary
>>client machine can connect and watch the video. The
>>problem seems to occur shortly after that. If I go back
>>to that publishing point 5 minutes later, the media
>player
>>tries to connect and returns "stopped". If I restart
>the
>>publishing point and or the server, it works. I can log
>>on 2 and 3 clients at a time when I first start up but
>>after I close the media player it eventually stops
>>buffering and thus playing. There are no errors in the
>>log, and the publishing point still indicates its
>>running. ??????
>>bruce
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Bruce,
>>>
>>>Have you created a Broadcast publishing point or an on
>>>demand publishing point? If it is broadcast, then is
>>>there a specific reason why you chose broadcast instead
>>>of on demand?
>>>
>>>Presuming your content is yourfile.wmv, and you have it
>>>in your root folder (which could be, for eg.,
>>>c:\wmpub\wmroot), all you have to do to stream this is
>>>to "Allow connections" on the default publishing point
>>>and play content from your player as
>>>mms://yourservername/yourfile.wmv and it should stream
>>>content.
>>>
>>>If you can't make this to work, please add more info
>>>about your setup.
>>>
>>>Thx,
>>>Ravi
>>>--
>>>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
>and
>>>confers no rights.
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>setup: Windows 2002 Standard edition, only using
>Windows
>>>media server.
>>>>
>>>>Serving a single file from the windows media root
>>>folder. A basic file served up.
>>>>
>>>>problem: I start the media server. One person
>connects
>>>and then if that person or any other system connects
>the
>>>media player immediately tries to connect and then
>>>returns "stopped". The server publishing point is
>still
>>>running. If I stop and start the publishing point or
>the
>>>server. The the first system that logs on serves fine.
>>>>
>>>>Look for help or any one with experience with this
>issue.
>>>>.
>>>>
>>>.
>>>
>>.
>>
>.
>
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