How does VLS support wmv files

[streamingqueen]

Hi
I am new to this technology and I am trying to explore it for our needs in streaming solution. Our department supports live and on demand streaming for the university and we have a windows 2003 server which is our media storage and streaming server. We have been facing the question to support quictime for streaming but it has been always a big question which streaming solution to go for. There is one called Helix server , a very expensive one. Even though it can support all major formats we cannot afford it. When I was reading about VLS, it sounds like it could be a solution to support both windows and media. I am looking for more information about VLS and how I can use this with our exisiting windows 2003 server (standard edition). we use windows media encoder 9 for encoding and archving. Please help. Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

no. use VLC for streaming.

[streamingqueen]

Can you please advise some link for VLC streaming? I mean how to setup and admin information.

[Chain-Lin]

Hello, every, what is the difference in VLC and VLS. Just like one is client side and other is server side. But there real difference is what, can anybody explain it. Thanks a lot.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hello, every, what is the difference in VLC and VLS. Just like one is client side and other is server side. But there real difference is what, can anybody explain it. Thanks a lot.

No VLC media player is a server and a client.

[Chain-Lin]

OK, thanks, I am looking at the documents about VLC and VLS. VLC can used as server stream output, initially it is client. but VLS is only used as server.