Winodws Media Server Publishing Point

[Guest batkins]

We have a large number of Windows Media streams that we are broadcasting to

the web using Windows Media Server 9 (in Windows Server 2003 (SP2)).

 

I am trying to build a way to be able to stop/restart our streams without

interrupting the stream and leaving "dead air" on our streams. The software

we are using to encode the streams needs to be restarted periodically.

 

What we think we want to do is to build a publishing point which contains

our remote publishing point followed by a playlist (consisting of around 7

songs) which we want to play if the publishing point stops playing for any

reason and continue to play those songs until the publishing point is

encoding again and begin playing when it comes up in the rotation.

 

It looks like I should be able to do that by creating a publishing point

which consists of our remote publishing point followed by a playlist which I

expect to play when the remote publishing point stops streaming. I am trying

to do that by dumping several songs from each stream in a folder and adding

that directory after that remote publishing point.

 

When the remote publishing point stops, the playlist doesn't start until I

stop the Windows Media publishing point and start it again. When it starts

back without the remote publishing point streaming, it will pickup and play

the songs from the playlist.

 

If I am listening to the publishing point using Media Player, the player

retries to buffer the stream until I stop it in Media Server and start it

again. It will then start playing songs from the backup playlist.

 

I am not making any changes to the properties of them media items. Is there

something else I need to do to have the WM publishing point go directly from

our remote publishing point to the songs in the directory when the remote

publishing point stops, or am I using the wrong approach?

 

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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Bill Atkins