[streaming] Re: WMV & Multicast for Internet

[Viktor Kompaneyets]

Steit Slings wrote:

> Hai Rafa,
> 
> You do not need a multicast IP for wmv. The problem is in your config
> 1) acodec should be mp3 for windows media
> 2) url ahould be the IP number of the network card, now your listening on
> the localhost. You sould do url=:1234 to listen on ALL IP's for your
> computer,
> Furthermore with this statement your are not sending out, the client needs
> to collect the stream from your server using mms://your.ip.number:1234/

Partially wrong. For multicast You need to select as mcast-addr adress in
range 224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255. Adresses in 224.0.0.0-225.0.0.0 can be
assigned only if You have network without routers. Reserved addresses are
described in RFC, or you can read this article:
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2001/article144.shtml

So if you stream to mcast you should set as output URL something like this:
{acodec=mp3, vcodec=WMV2,mux=asf,url=225.0.0.1:1234}

So on the player you should open stream as: mms://225.0.0.1:1234
Check, if on both sides is mcast-routing is set for network 224.0.0.0/4 on
the interface, which is envolved in multicast.


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Viktor Kompaneyets
Wnet project manager

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