Re: Media Player 11 & mms streaming problem

If WMP11 for XP does not support mms, then we need to use rtsp.
How do we configure the streaming server (Win 2000 server with WMS 4) to use
rtsp rather than mms?
We use the server to host a web site, so we don't want to use htpp for
streaming.


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:59:40 -0800, "Dave Roth [MSFT]"
<droth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To be a bit more specific the MMS protocol was two things: a streaming
protocol as well as a rollover protocol moniker. As a streaming protocol
it
was a binary bi-directional streaming protocol designed for and
implemented
in the v4 and v9 servers. It was present in the NetShow Player and Windows
Media Players v6.4-10. I am not sure if it is supported in the v11 player
or

No, it's definitely been removed in both WMP11 XP and Vista and
there's no way to configure it otherwise in the Network options dialog

Hence this has led to the repeated problems where large numbers of
stream providers have configured as mms, and left it as that without
updating the transport protocol to rtsp / http.

The natural consequence is users with WMP11 can't access the mms
stream URLs and there's not much they can do about that apart from
contacting the site to complain <g>

not. However a v9/v10 player would not connect to a v9 server using MMS
since it was not as functional as HTTP or RTSP.

The MMS *rollover* protocol moniker was used in a URL to simply tell the
player to use either the MMS streaming protocol, RTSP or HTTP streaming
protocols. If one failed then the player would "rollover" and try the next
one.

If you really wanted to force the player to use the MMS binary streaming
protocol you would have to use a URL with the protocol moniker MMSU:// or
MMST:// depending on whether you were using TCP or UDP for the data
payloads.


That's an odd scenario, since end users would have no idea whether one
or the other was "better" or even possible of traversing their NAT /
Firewall - and the stream provider would have no idea which to offer
as the default stream type for random corporate user X.


Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs


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