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This is a pulled session initiated by others - can they get a welcome video
from file before the live video starts?

Neil Smith [MVP Digital M · Guest

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:51:10 -0000, "Mac" <mac@nospam.com> wrote:

Mac · Guest

I have my live stream (DV webcam or TV capture) encoding ready to go as soon
as they are pulled by a WMP client. What I was hoping was that WME would
allow me to add a new source (a 5 second WMV file as a welcome splash,
before rolling over to the live stream). But I don't seem to be able to get
it to work as anticipated.

What seems to be happening is that the welcome splash gets encoded once
(when I start encoding) - but not pulled (as by that time the live stream is
already being the only thing encoded). I've been trying to set this up via
the Properties, Sources panel of WME.

Any other way to add such a welcome intro separate from the live stream?

BTW check out my new improved DV webcam feed on the pseudo-permanent WMP URL
http://adrian.dyndns.info:1219 - live now... kids have gone to bed...

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital M · Guest

Oh, got it - yeah

Well if you set up an ASX file (playlist) with 2 items, that should
work out fine - it's what I'm doing on the broadcaster site (when it's
running) :

<ASX version="3.0">
<ENTRY clientskip="no">
<REF
HREF="http://www.mywebserver.com/path/to/my/intro.wmv" />
</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>
<REF href="http://adrian.dyndns.info:1219" />
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

Then you might want to embed the media player in a web page, and set
the URL to the path of your ASX file, also stored on your web server.

You'll have to make sure your web server sends windows media file type
headers for both the ASX and WMV intro file : You'd set the headers as

ASX files video/x-ms-asf
WMV files video/x-ms-wmv
WMA files video/x-ms-wmv wmv

So on apache, you'd set up an addtype directive for each of those (and
preferably all those listed in the 1st reference below).

AddType video/x-ms-asf asf asx
AddType audio/x-ms-wma wma
AddType video/x-ms-wmv wmv

You can do that in httpd.conf or alternatively, add the directives to
an .htaccess file in the root of the web server or in the directory
you're hosting the static content [ASX and video file(s)]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/webserver.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/mime.asp

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:56:34 -0000, "Mac" <mac@nospam.com> wrote:

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