All things related to multicast

["Richard Mavrogeanes" <>]

You can also enter:

 

vbricksys://ip=123.123.123&port=1234

 

into Media Player if you've installed the StreamPlayer (it's free) on your Windoz machine. 

This lets you also view live MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 multicasts (you can view live MPEG-4 too, but it's more complicated).

 

rich

 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Zwiebel [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 5:04 PM
To: Bill Owens
Cc: John Zwiebel;
Subject: Re: Testing multicast stream from Thailand

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.