Does anyone know what to configure Windows Media server
for Win2K to accept ASX files or mms:// calls from only
one IP address?  The media files need to be played on any
IP address.

Hi,
We have a windows 2003 server setup for realtime streaming. WM9 Server
works great in the standard pull mode, but when we have a client push
to the server, there seems to be a bottleneck somewhere. All the

I am totaly new to working with streaming audio and video
over the net so I have a few quesions:
First this is what I am doing.  I am creating online
classes for my company by using Power Points recorded

I am exploring taking our WMS "admin" account out of the
Administrators group and putting it in the Power Users group.  I have
followed all the steps that this requires (as far as I can tell)
including the dcomcnfg changes.

What would be a good server (hardware wise) to do at
most, 10 simultaneous connections, @ 141K video streams
each...assuming I have the bandwidth.
I was thinking...dual xeon 3 GIG with 2 GIG RAM...15K

I have a push publishing point in Windows Media Services which broadcasts a
(high quality) stream.
When I start encoding using Windows Media Encoder and view the output there,
the delay is 5 seconds (the stream comes from another pc and I move the

Does anyone know of any log analysis tools that support the extended W3C WMS
log formats that WMS writes?

If I use Windows Server 2003 and WMS9, will I be able to set it up to *initiate* an outgoing connection from the WMS9 server to the Windows Media Player client?
I am asking because I have a server which is behind a firewall, using a non-routable internal IP, and I only want this ...

OK - 3 seperate questions based upon the following setup.
A windows 2003 enterprise server running only winmed services.  I plan to have on-demand content and live webcasts that should be accessible to the world.  The server sits on its on workgroup and the winmed encoder (just ...

I have a very robust Windows 2003 Server that's being
used for video streaming. This server is located in a
datacenter and servers up to 800 simultaneous streams at
100k each. So where talking about 80 mbit/sec.

Is it possible to run Media Services 4.1 on a Windows 2003 Standard
server?  Also, can 4.1 stream content encoded with the series 9
encoders?  I am still stuck using media services 4.1 as the Powerpoint
Producer requires it but would like to be as updated as possible.

Hi - does anyone know if there any performance (or anyother) issues
between the following alternatives to serve a live stream in WMS9:
1) Create a Broadcast point and point that to an encoder. - e.g.
mms://server/broadcast

Hi, I need advice on setting up a server with Windows server 2003,
Windows Media Services 9, and the Digital Rights Manager (DRM).
This machine will server video files on our campus.  I need to be able
to server files with permissions on who can access them.

Depend on the document of wms SDK, we can create the Custom Plug-ins.But we
found the number of system plug-in is more than the custom plugins.
Question is how can we create system plug-in by ourself? Where is the
interface?

I'm in the process of looking into how we can analyse the windows media
server log files for our streaming media. We currently run Web Trends for
regular usage analysis but their streaming media analysis doesn't seem to
work right. Other than writing our own system, does anyone know ...