All things related to multicast

[John Zwiebel <>]

On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 01:49 PM, Bill Owens wrote:

> Silly question from a non-Windows, non-Microsoft user - how do you convince Windows Media Player to listen to a multicast stream? I have it installed on my Mac, but I don't know the magic incantation. 
Silly answer, I've had luck opening an sdp file.
But not every time.

And I've also had luck using the URL when it  pointed to a playlist as in:
http://procketweb.procket.com/~jzwiebel/marshall.pls

which is a text file that looks like this:

[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1
File1=lsm://63.105.122.7:233.64.133.12:7004/text://63.105.122.7:233.64.133.13:7022/
Title1=ON-THE-I.COM-Channel1
Length1=-1


Its kind of frustrating that they go do such lengths to hide all this from you
but don't put those files "out there" where you can easily find them.