If I have a server side playlist that has entries pointing to a webserver,
using httpd, when does the windows media server call the webserver for the
file? Is as soon as the playlist is requested or just before that clip is
supposed to play?

I am getting an error saying "Module not found" everytime I try to test media
on a server. The media works when I run it directly from the WMPub directory.
Any ideas?

The situation is the following:
I have an encoder encoding on a continous basis ....12 hrs files.
I have users who need to play arbitary segments( start time to stop time )
of the file while it is being encoded.  This needs to be done over the

When I use a windows media player 9 to visit movie
using "mms://x.x.x.x/test.wmv",the player will rollover to
rtsp protocol to play the movie.
But when I config the rtsp port to a Non-default port(i.e.

Is there a way to get WMS to use a network share as the root for a mount
point for on demand content?
All of our media files are stored on NAS. I have successfully mounted the
network drive, however WMS will only allow me to use local storage.

Hy staff,just only little advices if you can....
I've successfully implemented a Digest Authentication Plugin:
 string AUTH_REALM = "registered_users@mydomain.com"
 string AUTH_QOP = "auth";

i know to some this is a dumb question but the only thing i think i need to
know is how do i figure out  what the  url is to point to my mms: or http:
any help any one can be will be  greatly appreciated!
Rob

when playing a video from email I received the following error "!cannot play
back the video stream - no suitable decompressor could be found" I can only
hear the video.  I operate on a windows 2000.  Thank you

Hello All;
 I asked this question over a year ago, when I first installed and was
trying to learn about Win2k3 & WMS9. But no one seemed to have the right
information for it.

Hi Ravi,
I saw that you offered a visitor a script snippet for
starting all publishing points on a server. I'm wondering
if you have a script that will simply tell whether or not

Performance Monitor now has  a Peak Player Send Rate counter under
Windows Media Services that shows the peak data rate sent to the
Players since the last time the counter was reset.  But how do you
reset this counter?

We try to set up a distribution server for a broadcast mountpoint.
all Servers WIN2003 Enterprise and only get Error 0x80070005
PROBLEM:
trying to set up a broadcasting mountpoint on the distribution Server with

as the clientData element in the WSX playlist is for Media Player 9
and later, what can i do to put information to my WMS9 playlist such
as artist, title, album, that is also accessible in Player 6.4? and
not just in Player9, like the clientData element.

Is there a way to set the Album Art image on the media player from the
server side?  The banner works fine...I can't find an attribute for the
album art tho.   Seems crazy that I wouldn't be able to do it..
Thanks!

Now I will develop an authentication plugin to accomplish that the user want
to visit the source of the media which is mutilcast stream must be input the
user ID and the password and our system will the authenticates the user and
records the user login visit info.But after I have ...