Re: ASF stream format

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Thanks,
Suppose I want to do it myself, can my own filter simply eliminate some
packets from the ASF stream, or should it be with some embedded header
packets or in some other way?

Regards
Rami

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:12:45 +0200, "Rami" <rami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I experiment a little with ASF streamed video. In a typical scenario a
server transmits a atream to a client - like Windows Media Player.
Suppose I
put some "filter" between them, that manages to parse the ASF data blocks
from the server TCP packets, eliminate some complete DATA blocks (usually
start with $D) and retransmit the rest blocks again to the client. Would
the client accept it gracefully. i.e just displaying some jump, but not
crashing or stop receiving the stream?


It should work. You can do this with some "filter" called VideoLAN
player, which will accept an mms or http ASF stream and rebroadcast
(or archive it) to a third client : http://www.videolan.org/

See also
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
http://www.videolan.org/streaming-features.html

The more it looks like http progressive download, in general the more
reliable the results will be across player versions.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs


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