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Windows Server Forum / Windows Media Server / May 2007WMS Publishing point needs to be bounced???
We have a WMS with 4 publishing points that broadcast output from 4 encoders. There are 5-6 clients (Media players) that connect to each of these publishing points. The players work fine for several hours. We keep bringing the players down and restart them as required. But the WMS is always running fine. But every few hours a strange problem is observed. The player is not able to play the publishing point video. It just says "Bufferring" and then says "Ready". But will not play the video. All clients for that publishing point will behave the same way. Other publishing points are ok, however. When this happens, if I take a look at WMS, I see that the sick publishing point is still "green" or running. If I now stop and start the publishing point and then connect a media player to the same publishing point, it will be fine. But for some reason the publishing point seems to be entering this sick state and we dont know what to do. How do we prevent this from happenning? How do I know what is going on? Do we need to write some kind of WMS plugin to trap and prevent this error? If so what type? Any help is appreciated. Thanks -Sai Are these unicast or multicast publishing points? I've seen this problem with multicast. WMS seems to get hung up sometimes for no apparent reason. Also check the WMS log file. > We have a WMS with 4 publishing points that broadcast output from 4 encoders. > There are 5-6 clients (Media players) that connect to each of these [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Thanks > -Sai These are all unicast publishing points. Directly connecting to the encoder endpoint for the sick wms publishing point continues to work. It is only the WMS publishing point that does not give out video. Also not all wms publishing points on that WMS machine are sick. Only one is sick at any time. Others are fine. There is nothing in the WMS logs. Please let us know if you have any additional insight into this. Thanks -Sai > Are these unicast or multicast publishing points? I've seen this problem with > multicast. WMS seems to get hung up sometimes for no apparent reason. Also [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Thanks > > -Sai Hey Sai, Are you running any kind of server sided publishing point? I ask because I have been experiencing this exact same problem since a few months and have been unable to track down its cause. Like you said, there's nothing that points to a problem in the logs, and the server itself thinks everything is fine yet de publishing point will not send you any video untill you restart it. So far I've been guessing its related to how my server sided publishing points function, but for now I'm not sure. > These are all unicast publishing points. > Directly connecting to the encoder endpoint for the sick wms publishing [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > > Thanks > > > -Sai Yes we have encoder machines streaming out video to the Windows media server machine. Windows media server machine has all these publishing points that are accessed by client machines running media players. The strange thing is that when we check the sick wms publishing point on the wms server, it remains lighted green(running). When the publishing point is initially started and streaming successfully it is green. But even after it gets sick and not streaming anymore, it remains green. Any ideas? > Hey Sai, > [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > > > > Thanks > > > > -Sai |
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