I am a newbie in media and I am asking simple questions.
What does WindowsMedia Server do?
Where can I download it?
thanks,

In a server side playlist which is a live broadcast point,
if I pull media_1 through rtsp from an VOD publishing point
(rtsp://wms.domain/consul400/) and if this media is interrupted by
another media_2 element from a higher class of priority, even if media_1

I have an encoder encoding a stream at 300 Kbps, but I only want to
stream it to clients at 48 kbps.  Can this be done without encoding
the stream at multiple bitrates and the encoder location?
The real world situation: you tell someone to set up their encoder to

Can anybody explain me how to stream a custom compressed video through
Windows Media Server?
I have a video stream compressed with a proprietary video compression.
The stream is not in ASF or TS format.

I have a Windows Media Server set up. I have created several publishing
points with web pages pointing to them. I have been able to successfully run
the streaming media from within the firewall and from outside the firewall
with software VPN. I cannot, though, run the stream ...

  I setup Window Media Services on window 2k3 server enterprise and made an
on-demand streaming using carrace sample video.
  The streaming video works fine on the server using the testing page
generated by WMS, no matter I used localhost or the real domain name.

We are looking for consultants to help setup large scale content distribution
network for windows media servers.  Anyone have a good place to post or
search?
We are located in NY.

Is there a way to log the streams coming from a Win Media Encoder doing a
"Push" live stream to a Windows Media Server?   I have several encoders on
different machines providing streams to the server (for redistribution).
I'd like to be able to report on the availability of each ...

I was wondering if anyone has faced with the same issue:
We are running Win2003 Enterprise with SP1 on multiple servers.  They
all have identical configuration for the OS as well as for WMS.
However, one of the servers does not have "Advanced Fast Start" option

Is it possible to get WMS to encode files on the fly as they're being
served, like many other media broadcasting softwares out there (like
Shoutcast)?
I've got 30GB of MP3s on my Windows Server I want to stream with WMS, and

I have a stream here:
mms://radio.nativemusicsource.com/nmslow
When I try to connect I see on the server that a connection has been
made, but in Windows Media I get a UDP port error.

I have a web server that I host my website. I setup a Windows Media Server on
another server. I embedded the streaming video on my web page. When I open
the site in the office, I can see the streaming video. But when I am not
connected to our local network the video does no ...

Ok, I have created a webpage with an embedded media player to play a live,
multicast broadcast.  It works great on Windows with IE6, IE7, Opera, and
Firefox, but I can not get it to work on MACs that are on our network.  They
have tried using Safari and Firefox but it does not ...

Ok, we have successfully set up multicasting on our network, but have an
issue.  I have been asked to have the multicast go out one NIC and have the
server pull from the encoder on another NIC.  Is this possible?  
Our server has 6 NIC cards in it.  Two will be used for Multicast ...

Hi all you specialist out there....
I have installed WMS on our intranet server. OUt of the box, the demo
wmv files play fine. If I go to the WMS control panel, browse to the
<default> publishing point, I can test al default installed wmv files.