Thanks for looking into my question.
I have two scenarios where I want to stream WMA files.
#1: I have all DRM protected WMA files on my web site. My server has both
WMS and IIS. The user is allowed to select a couple songs on web pages. I

Is there a way in an smil playlist to have an image display while the
player is buffering the video? Even better would be having a very
short video play while a longer one buffers.
I'm using WMS using wsx playlist files. I think I've seen the tag

I am trying to play audio from a server running Windows Media Services on
Windows Server 2003 through a MMS URL (mms://***).
When I try to seek to an unbuffered position in Windows Media Player, it
throws an error saying "Cannot connect to the sever". If I let the file play

I am trying to setup a multicast live broadcast using pull from the encoder -
and I get this error code on the Windows Media Server.  I am using the
http://IP:port in the encoder - other desktops can connect to it, but the WMS
can't.

This seems to be a dead forum - lots of questions, but no answers?????

Can you suggest me how to achive the following scenario using Windows Media
Server.
I have a set of pre-recorded videos that I want to webcast at a certain day
& certain time.

 I have over 100 publishing points on my Media Server, all showing
video about 2 hours long.  I also have 5 new promo videos that I would
like to have play beforehand.
 I want to play only one of the 5 promos before each show, and for

We have a WMS with 4 publishing points that broadcast output from 4 encoders.
There are 5-6 clients (Media players) that connect to each of these
publishing points.
The players work fine for several hours. We keep bringing the players down

I hope this is a really simple question :)
We have lots of Win2k3 servers available but we have never used the
WMS component.
We are currently getting caned by 100s of users on our LAN streaming

I am using the MMS protocol to stream video content (URL is:
mms://publishingpoint/filename.wmv). I am also using IIS on port 80. I
have the WMS HTTP Server Control Protocol enabled (running on port 81
so as not to conflict with iis) and I want to know if the rollover is

Hello Windows Media Server people.
Quick intro: Windows Media Server has to be one of my favorite MS
technologies, and one that my companies have invested deeply in. We do a few
dozen webcasts per day, and run several sites that host thousands of hours of

I need to set up my WMS to only accept request from mydomain.com, and to deny
all others. How do I go about doing this??
Please include the version Server OS, the version WMS, and process to enable
this to be done.

I can't seem to get NTLM authentication to work on a mac.  I've
downloaded Windows Media Components for Quicktime and even Windows Media
Player 9 for Mac.  Nothing seems to get around this issue.  Is there a
way to use a difference type of authentication (secure, not clear text)

I have setup my WMA server with a publishing point from a directory. It works
great for streaming archived MP3 audio files like I want it too with http
protocol.
But I also want to allow users to click on a link and be able to download

Hi all,
How does the MS implementation of RTSP take after the standards track  RFC
2326. It is not a strict RTSP for sure. Can RealPlayer, Helix or Darwin talk
to WMS?