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Re: WMP 10




> What sort of streaming protocol are you using? (http, RSP, etc)?

We're using HTTP.

> I've had horrible problems with streaming any media over HTTP to WMP. 
Give
> it a URL and watch it download the entire media file before it starts
> playing it.  In my case, for my project (www.dvarchive.org), it's
video, so
> it'll download a multi-GB file before it starts playback.
>
> Some older versions of WMP used to do this properly, but newer ones
either
> have lousy support for streaming over HTTP or there is a secret(ish)
HTTP
> header they need to see before they'll stream.

Tony - have you tried streaming from SlimServer via WMP? If WMP can stream
from SlimServer, it maybe worth seeing what special headers (if any)
SlimServer is sending out.

Regards,

John



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