MMS Streaming Media Server for WMV

[vnxny]

I have a bunch of WMV ( encoded for streaming by Windows Media Encoder ) files that I have pulled from a Windows Media Server host to deploy on a Linux based host. I have spent several hours looking at the documentation and playing around with VLC on linux to see if I can configure a streaming solution for WMV files. What I want is a server component that will stream from a media-root folder on demand. Say I have just added 1.wmv and new/2.wmv under the root ( about 50 more files would get added to the media-root once the concept starts working ). The client ( WMP/VLC ) would connect to the URLs
[url]mms://server.com:port/1.wmv[/url]
and
[url]mms://server.com:port/new/2.wmv[/url]
and play seekable streams served by the same server process in both cases.

So far I have been able to use the WMP client to join a broadcast by VLC server using:

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vlc --color -vvv ./dvd-hi-res/1.wmv --sout '#standard{access=mmsh,dst=:29999}'

Any pointers whether this can be accomplished by VLC and how would be greatly appreciated.

PS: Complete streaming/VLC n00b. Hope this is the appropriate forum.

[dionoea]

VLC can't stream mms on demand (and noone's working on it as far as I know).

[vnxny]

VLC can't stream mms on demand (and noone's working on it as far as I know).

Thanks for your response. Can I ask you to recommend any alternative open/closed source Linux products that would do the trick?

[dionoea]

Well Windows Media Server would work Other than that I don't think that there are a lot of MMS servers available. (It might be implemented one day in VLC ... can't say when though)