Windows Mobile 5.0 can't pull stream from VLC

[erwin]

On iPAQ hx2490 I set up Wi-Fi Adapter for fixed IP address and computer-to-computer access

On PC running Windows XP, I set up Netgear WG111 WLAN adapter for fixed IP address 10.1.50.20 and computer-to-computer address

iPAQ and PC see each other and connect over WLAN

On Stream output I choose Output method = MMSH and Encapsulation method = ASF and press OK. I assume that VLC is now listening as MMS server on port 1234.

When I point Windows Media Player 10 Mobile to mms://10.1.50.20:1234/ the iPAQ gives me the infamous error message:

"Cannot find the file. The file might have been moved, renamed, or deleted. etc"

This error comes up fairly fast, as if there was a syntax error in the URL.

Under Windows Mobile 5.0 the URL syntax has changed to pull a stream from Windows Media Encoder, it is now:

http://10.1.50.20:8080/* note the asterik

What is the URL syntax for fulling stream from VLC with WMP 10 Mobile?

Thank you very much

Erwin

[dionoea]

We're unlikely to know more about that then you are. What could be usefull is:
1/ try to see if the http://10.1.50.20:8080/* URL is a playlist (text file) or the stream itself. If it's a text file it's contents would be most interesting;
2/ use a tool like Wireshark to compare how windows media player behaves when conecting to windows media server compared to VLC ... and try to find the relevant differences;
3/ if you know how to code C, edit the VLC sources to make it work Else I'll give it a try if you can provide enough details.

[erwin]

Dear Antoine

Thank you for your response.

Here you will find three Wireshark capture files: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1myh2g

WMP_VLC.pcap
where WMP (192.168.2.102) running under Windows XP pulls a stream from VLC with the standard URL mms://192.168.2.100:8080/

Frames 8 and 16 show Content-type: application/octet-stream and Pragma: features="broadcast"

WMP10Mobile_WME.pcap
where WMP10Mobile (192.168.2.101) pulls a stream from Windows Media Encoder with the new URL mms://192.168.2.100:8080/*
Without the asterik WMP10Mobile quickly responds with the error "Cannot find the file. etc"

Frames 13 and 29 show Content-type: application/vnd.ms.wms-hdr.asfv1 and Pragma: features="broadcast,playlist"

WMP10Mobile_VLC.pcap
where WMP10Mobile (192.168.2.101) unsuccessfully tries to pull a stream from VLC even with the new URL mms://192.168.2.100:8080/*
Without the asterik WMP10Mobile quickly responds with the error "Cannot find the file. etc"

Thank you very much

Erwin

[erwin]

Dear Antoine

Here are two links that you may find interesting:

http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocu ... xt.pdf%20-

http://sdp.ppona.com/

Seems that in Windows Mobile 5.0 the MMS protocol has been replaced by the Streaming HTTP protocol.

Regards

Erwin

[erwin]

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Erwin