Limit bandwidth per stream per player problem

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Michael - 18 Jan 2004 20:15 GMT

I have MBR videos with three different bitrates, 200Kbps,
100Kbps, and 28Kbps. If I set the "Limit bandwidth per
stream per player" setting for the publishing point to
anything less than 200Kbps, I get an error that
the "server is busy" when I try and play the stream. If I
set it to anything over 200Kbps, it works perfectly. All
of the tests I have done exhibit the same behavior, the
limit has to be set higher than the highest bitrate in the
encoded file or I get the error.

Due to my new bandwidth constraints at the server, I am
trying to keep any players from ever playing the 200K
stream even if they have a connection fast enough for it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Yasir Hussain - 29 Jan 2004 19:52 GMT

Michael,

since you have Multi Bit Rate media, instead of trying to throttle the
server to control which bit rate is streamed, I suggest you control
the client.
You can do this by using query strings.
for example

To specify that Windows Media Player should try to get the content at
200 Kbps:
mms://server/content.wmv?WMContentBitrate=200000

more query strings are mentioned at this link
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315959

hope this helps !

Yasir Hussain
Computer Services Consultant II
Distance Education Network,
University of Southern California
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> I have MBR videos with three different bitrates, 200Kbps,
> 100Kbps, and 28Kbps. If I set the "Limit bandwidth per
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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