Re: To Ravi - ERROR when using Wrapper Playlists

From: Ravi Raman (ravira_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/22/05


Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:07:19 -0800

Pedro,

I appreciate your feedback on this. I will pass it on to
appropriate folks here.

I am not sure if I can comment on future product plans in
this newsgroups - so, can't help much there besides
passing your feedback to others at this point.

Thx,
Ravi

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>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Ravi,
>
>	Yes, you are right now in my question, what i am 
trying to do is to 
>serve a ".swf" file from a remote web server to the media 
player with 
>the wrapper playlists feature while getting the swf from 
an asp page, 
>but as you said i have noticied that the only formats 
than i can stream 
>with that wrapper lists are .wmv files and .jpg ( never 
tried with .mp3 
>), not flash movies in any way.
>
>	Does MS have in mind to add that feature in a near 
future to the server 
>? it will be very helpfull to content providers to 
include interactive 
>flash ads dinamically into the player when a video file 
is requested.
>
>	Thanks for all the info and effort Ravi, i 
appreciate it.
>
>	Best Regards
>
>
>
>Ravi Raman escribió:
>> Sorry. Probably did not read the question right. 
>> 
>> When you say Flash file, does it mean a file stored in 
>> Flash format? The server only supports streaming of ASF 
>> and MP3 files, so the issue here is that server does 
not 
>> support Flash streaming (local file or from remote 
>> server). 
>> 
>> If you copy the flash file to your local file system 
and 
>> try to stream it, does it stream? Or am I once again 
>> misunderstanding your question?
>> 
>> Thx,
>> Ravi
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and 
>> confers no rights.
>> 
>> 
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Hi Ravi,
>>>
>>>	Thanks for your answer, ;-)..
>>>
>>>	Yes, i can reach the page trough port 1090 ( the 
>> 
>> server is in the same 
>> 
>>>lan-segment without routers and proxyes in the middle 
of 
>> 
>> both machines ( 
>> 
>>>there is no problem for that ).
>>>
>>>
>>>	Actually what i have been able to do is to stream 
>> 
>> a .wmv file stored 
>> 
>>>locally which is called from an asp page ( like the 
>> 
>> first example i 
>> 
>>>posted ),
>>>
>>>	but when changing from the local video file to a 
>> 
>> remote flash file ( in 
>> 
>>>the test.asp code )  it does not work and the server 
>> 
>> gives me this message:
>> 
>>>Error 0xc002dee8
>>>
>>>The publishing point '/' is unable to stream from 
>>>'http://10.22.245.209:1090/ad.swf', referenced in 
>>>'httpd://10.22.245.209:1090/test.asp'.
>>>
>>>
>>>Don´t know where can be exactly the problem because the 
>> 
>> test.asp page 
>> 
>>>that contains the flash movie looks like this:
>>>
>>><% OPTION EXPLICIT %>
>>><smil>
>>>
>>>  <media src="http://10.22.245.209:1090/ad.swf" />
>>>
>>></smil>
>>>
>>>and when it works with a local file it looks like this:
>>>
>>><% OPTION EXPLICIT %>
>>><smil>
>>>
>>>  <media src="c:\wmpub\wmroot\ad1.wmv" />
>>>
>>></smil>
>>>
>>>
>>>Please if you have any idea about where can be my 
>> 
>> problem i will 
>> 
>>>appreciate it a lot.
>>>
>>>Thanks for your time
>>>
>>>Pedro Gil Morales
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Ravi Raman escribió:
>>>
>>>>Few things pedro:
>>>>Can you actually reach the file .ASP through port 1090 
>>>>using other means (like Internet Explorer)? For 
>> 
>> example, 
>> 
>>>>do you have to go through a proxy to get to the 
>> 
>> webserver? 
>> 
>>>>Your player proxy settings won't work for the server.
>>>>
>>>>Also, you might want to try to make your ASP File 
>> 
>> output a 
>> 
>>>>valid WSX file (i.e, including the SMIL Tags etc). 
>> 
>> There 
>> 
>>>>is an "ASP Page Sample" section on the Windows Media 
>> 
>> SDK 
>> 
>>>>that explains this. The sample playlist in one goes 
>> 
>> like 
>> 
>>>>this:
>>>><% OPTION EXPLICIT %>
>>>><smil>
>>>>
>>>>  <media src="c:\wmpub\wmroot\ad1.wmv" />
>>>><%
>>>>    ' Declare variables.
>>>>    ' Some more code here
>>>>            Response.Write("  <media 
>>>>src=""c:\wmpub\wmroot\ad4.wmv"" />")
>>>>    
>>>>%>
>>>>  <media src="c:\wmpub\wmroot\movie1.wmv" />
>>>>
>>>></smil>
>>>>
>>>>Hope this helps.
>>>>Ravi
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>> 
>> and 
>> 
>>>>confers no rights.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>Hi, it´s me again,
>>>>>
>>>>>	the errors I am receiving from the server in the 
>>>>
>>>>event viewer  are:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Server gives the following warning information: 'The 
>>>>
>>>>publishing point 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>'/' is unable to stream 
>>>>
>>>>from 'httpd://10.22.245.209:1090/test.asp', 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>referenced 
>>>>
>>>>in 'file://C:\WMPub\WMRoot\Default_wrapper.wsx'.'.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>the wrapper playlist is like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>---------------------------------
>>>>>	<?wsx version="1.0"?>
>>>>><smil>
>>>>>   <media src="httpd://10.22.245.209:1090/test.asp"/>
>>>>>   <media src="%requestedUrl%"/>
>>>>></smil>
>>>>>
>>>>>-----------------------------
>>>>>and the test.asp file is like this
>>>>>
>>>>>-------------------------------
>>>>><% OPTION EXPLICIT %>
>>>>><%
>>>>>Response.Write("mms://10.22.245.209/test2.wmv")
>>>>>%>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>-----------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>Please any help will be much appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thnks in advance
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Pedro Gil Morales escribió:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I am trying to set up a publishing point with 
>>>>
>>>>advertisement features, 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>using for that a "wrapper list",
>>>>>>What i need is to serve a flash movie the url for 
>> 
>> that 
>> 
>>>>flash movie is 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>obtained trough an asp page.
>>>>>>I have been trying to set this but i have not been 
>>>>
>>>>success, the 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>requested clip is played ( because the second tem in 
>>>>
>>>>the wrapper list is 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>%requestedurl% ) but the first item, which is the 
asp 
>>>>
>>>>page doesn´t work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>I have even tried to insert a static flash movie 
into 
>>>>
>>>>the wrapper list 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>but with the same result, no flash played, just the 
>>>>
>>>>movie.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>Please this is very important to me, i have 
used .asx 
>>>>
>>>>files to serve 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>flash movies statically but no success with wrapper 
>>>>
>>>>lists, any idea or 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>suggestion will be much appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks to all.
>>>>>>Pedro Gil
>>>>>
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>>>>>Open forums for IT Community
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>>>>>-------------------------------
>>>>>.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>-------------------------------
>>>*Pedro Gil Morales *
>>>www.specializa.com
>>>Open forums for IT Community
>>>Webmaster & Site Administrator
>>>-------------------------------
>>>.
>>>
>
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