Streaming From VLC to Windows Media Server 2003
Posted: 08 Jan 2008 17:37
I have an mpeg 4 IP stream from a Vivotek mpeg encoder. I am capturing it and transcoding to ASF via VLC. I can open the stream in Windows Media Player on a local machine and on another machine on the network using mms://172.17.100.50:8080 . I can't get the stream to be recognized by the Windows Media Server software so I can serve it to a large audience. In the Publishing Point I am using http://172.17.100.50:8080 as the publishing point won't accept mms. HTTP is the way I reference my other streams which are generated by the Windows Media Encoder. I can open the stream via Windows Media player on my Windows Media Server machine, so network access isn't the problem.
This is the code I am using: :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV1,vb=128,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=172.17.100.50:8080}}
When I point my Windows Media Server Publishing Point at http://172.17.100.50:8080 and hit the start button, it goes gray, like it is going to work, then goes green again, as if it failed to connect. If I hit the preview button in the publishing point, it says "buffering" briefly, then errors out with this message:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the server is not available (for example, the server is busy or not online).
If I can overcome this hurdle, I have to other things I'd like to add:
I would like to send audio as well. What codec should I use for audio?
I'd like to create a Multibitrate Windows Media stream. Is that possible via VLC?
This is the code I am using: :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV1,vb=128,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=172.17.100.50:8080}}
When I point my Windows Media Server Publishing Point at http://172.17.100.50:8080 and hit the start button, it goes gray, like it is going to work, then goes green again, as if it failed to connect. If I hit the preview button in the publishing point, it says "buffering" briefly, then errors out with this message:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the server is not available (for example, the server is busy or not online).
If I can overcome this hurdle, I have to other things I'd like to add:
I would like to send audio as well. What codec should I use for audio?
I'd like to create a Multibitrate Windows Media stream. Is that possible via VLC?
I only tried that pulling in the file saved by VLC to WME,because WME couldn't transcode the live stream. But there was a problem still. WME couldn't read the file of increasing size.That is to say ,VLC couldn't pull in the stream to WME. 
