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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

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.

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

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

Resolved

Bought an iPAQ hx2410 with Windows Mobile 2003 SE with old mms protocol

Erwin