I am a compete newbie on Media Server but I have been handed this
project by my boss and need to know if I am in for a rough ride or not.
Here is the deal:
My boss landed a contract with a company whose goal it is to show

We have been using WM to broadcast video throughout the school since
September. Suddenly yesterday afternoon, the server failed with no note in
the event log to indicate why. I have re-booted the server twice since then,
and it starts without any problems. When I try to connect ...

I am tasked with supporting a WMS that was installed and confgiured by
someone else.
When the video guys create the asx files from the server, the resultant
mms:// string in the asx file is in the syntax

How can I write all log entries directly to a sql server table instead of
creating log files? Is there an example available of how this is done?
Thanks,
Dave

I got a Servers with 30mps bandwith.
Why when i play a stream, after a few minutes, it goes down from 300kps to
32kps and stay at 32kps.
When i refresh page, it goes up again at 300kps for a few minutes.

Im trying to set up my website to display a few realtively basi
statistics from my publishing point. Primarily up/down status an
player/bandwidth limits. So far I have not found a simple way to d
this. While I'd prefer to do so with php, I can do asp if needed

I've mentioned this here before, but now I have some data.  Occasionally we see
multicast publishing points that appear to be working just fine (according to
WMS) but WMP cannot play the stream and the bandwidth on the network is well
below normal.  These PPs are pulling video ...

Following an On-Demand wms video, we would like to trigger a webpage with a
"Call to Action" invitation.
What is the easiest way to automatically have the browser go to a specific
webpage? Can the asx trigger that event? Do you have to use a Wrapper under

I'm about to order a server to use exclusively for Window Media streaming.
We are going to do live streams and also some on-demand viewing. We have a
T1 right now and as useage grows we will move it to a T3.
What would be the ideal hardware configuration to eventually handle 50 to

We are in need of sending multiple live streams (from different PCs)
and
recording all of them in a Windows Media Server, and leave them on a
publishing point so we can access them later on. Is Windows Media

We are in need of sending multiple live streams (from different PCs) and
recording all of them in a Windows Media Server, and leave them on a
publishing point so we can access them later on. Is Windows Media Server
capable of doing this? How it could be done?

Goal: To set up HTTP streaming on a Microsoft Small Business 2003 Server
running both IIS and WMS.  Thanks in advance for your input!
What I believe:
IIS should use Port 80 on it’s own IP address.

We have aprox 10 media servers. Normally we can handle about 20000 32k live
streams per server. We have implemented on demand ads during the stream,
using serverside play lists, and now it seems our compacity has dropped to
less than 2000 per server. We are using lpp (local ...

I am working on MEDIA SERVICES on WINDOWS 2003.
It's all on a server, housed at my provider's server lab.
My problem:
If there are more then 8-10 clients, watching on of my Videos at the same

Is it possible to store media files (like windows .wmv) on SQL Server 2005
and stream it back to the client via media server (not just download it)?
I already use SQL Server to store and retrieve small binary files (under
100Kb) using VB.NET (winforms and ASP 2.0), and I was just ...