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Windows Server Forum / Windows Media Server / April 2004publishing point stops
setup: Windows 2002 Standard edition, only using Windows media server Serving a single file from the windows media root folder. A basic file served up problem: I start the media server. One person connects and then if that person or any other system connects the media player immediately tries to connect and then returns "stopped". The server publishing point is still running. If I stop and start the publishing point or the server. The the first system that logs on serves fine. Look for help or any one with experience with this issue Bruce, Have you created a Broadcast publishing point or an on demand publishing point? If it is broadcast, then is there a specific reason why you chose broadcast instead of on demand? Presuming your content is yourfile.wmv, and you have it in your root folder (which could be, for eg., c:\wmpub\wmroot), all you have to do to stream this is to "Allow connections" on the default publishing point and play content from your player as mms://yourservername/yourfile.wmv and it should stream content. If you can't make this to work, please add more info about your setup. Thx, Ravi -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. >-----Original Message----- >setup: Windows 2002 Standard edition, only using Windows media server. >Serving a single file from the windows media root folder. A basic file served up. > >problem: I start the media server. One person connects and then if that person or any other system connects the media player immediately tries to connect and then returns "stopped". The server publishing point is still running. If I stop and start the publishing point or the server. The the first system that logs on serves fine. >Look for help or any one with experience with this issue. >. Hi Ravi Thanks for the reply. I am not sure that I follow you. I currently have a publishing point that when I first start the media server and the then start the "on demand" publishing point "currently called beavervdo", a secondary client machine can connect and watch the video. The problem seems to occur shortly after that. If I go back to that publishing point 5 minutes later, the media player tries to connect and returns "stopped". If I restart the publishing point and or the server, it works. I can log on 2 and 3 clients at a time when I first start up but after I close the media player it eventually stops buffering and thus playing. There are no errors in the log, and the publishing point still indicates its running. ?????? bruce >-----Original Message----- >Bruce, [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >> >. Hi Bruce, You should look up the difference between a "on demand" and a "broadcast" publishing point on the WIndows Media Help documentation. Unless I am misunderstanding you, you seem to have broadcast publishing point (only a broadcast publishing point can be "started" - hence my conclusion). Can you confirm that you indeed have a broadcast publishing point? The icons for on demand and broadcast publishing points are different, so you can find it out on the administrator. For example, on Windows Server 2003 default server installation, the "<Default>" publishing point is "On demand", and the "Sample Broadcast" publishing point is a "Broadcast" publishing point. I am thinking that you have a file that is approx. five minutes in length and you have a broadcast publishing point setup instead of an on demand publishing point. So, anybody who connects after 5 minutes sees nothing (because the file has ended past the "broadcasting" point and client simply receives nothing, so it stops). You should probably recreate your publishing point as a "on demand" publishing point (you can use the wizard to create publishing points in which case the wizard will ask for whether you want on demand or broadcast publishing point) and try the same scenario. Hope this makes sense. Ravi -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. >-----Original Message----- >Hi Ravi [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] >> >. YOU DA MAN (oops PERSON). I duplicated the "on-demand" publishing point and pointed the source to my file and guess what? Works as advertised. A quick question though, would you use the broadcast publishing point exclusively for a live stream? Thanks for the help >-----Original Message----- >Hi Bruce, [quoted text clipped - 108 lines] >> >. Glad I could be of help. Yes, Broadcast is typically used for a "live" scenario - it is a shared experience. The "Concepts" section in the help documentation of Windows Media Server explains this with good examples. Ravi --- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. >-----Original Message----- >YOU DA MAN (oops PERSON). I duplicated the "on-demand" [quoted text clipped - 118 lines] >> >. |
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