Streaming From VLC to Windows Media Server 2003

[dcmarc]

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?

[xiaobei]

Hi,
I have the same trouble! I have found the ASF transcoded by vlc couldn't be accepted by Windows Media Service 2003 .How is the latest progress of your project ?

Ths
xiaobei

[dcmarc]

No advances.

I wonder if there is a way to use the video being captured by VLC as an input for the Windows Media Encoder?
If VLC could pull in the MPEG stream and make it accessible to Windows Media Encoder, letting WME do the transcode to Windows Media, then I could have an MBR stream and know that Windows Media Server will talk to my stream.

[xiaobei]

No advances.

I wonder if there is a way to use the video being captured by VLC as an input for the Windows Media Encoder?
If VLC could pull in the MPEG stream and make it accessible to Windows Media Encoder, letting WME do the transcode to Windows Media, then I could have an MBR stream and know that Windows Media Server will talk to my stream.

I have tried in this way .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.
By the way,what is MBR stream? The stream can be broadcasted by WMS?

[vlcdogs]

Try messing with scale. For me I set it to .4 and I can stream to WMP. If I use .5 it doesnt work. It depends on the source video size so play around with it and stream local to your self and try different scale settings. I am not streaming to a server. I am streaming local and through internet with success.

[xiaobei]

Try messing with scale. For me I set it to .4 and I can stream to WMP. If I use .5 it doesnt work. It depends on the source video size so play around with it and stream local to your self and try different scale settings. I am not streaming to a server. I am streaming local and through internet with success.

Hi vlcdogs,
Thank you for your advice!I have tried what you said .VLC as a server ,I am streaming through internet with success.But I don't get a approving result,because I set the size to 1 and the vcode to 768K.In fact,my interest is how about the progress between vlc and Window Meida Servers 2003.I am streaming to WMS 2000 via vlc .it is ok! Why WMS 2003 is not ok?

[didigwa]

Hi, I try the same thing can you tell me what do you do for the system for the WMS2000 work ? I have tried with WMS2003 nothing.
I want trying with WMS2000.
Thanks

[xiaobei]

Hi, I try the same thing can you tell me what do you do for the system for the WMS2000 work ? I have tried with WMS2003 nothing.
I want trying with WMS2000.
Thanks

The same way that you tried with WMS 2003 is ok with WMS 2000!

[moziqing]

I have the same problem now. Did you resolved it?