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by raharr

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Where can I find information on setting up a intranet windows media server? This is my first time setting one up and I am having some little problems. I seem to have it set up correctly and can play the videos on the server itself, but when I connection through a client, the player shows like it is loading, but nothing plays.

Thanks
Russ

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by david.wallis

do the clients have the correct software/codecs installed to view the media?

by tintoman

If you want to give this one a try it supposed to be excellent for streaming meadia across a network, I have used it but not on a network, it seems to play just about any type of media format there is.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

by raharr

I am downloading it and going to give it a try. Thanks

by cg it

Have to provide far more informtation on your setup to make a suggestion.

Do you want something like youtube? or do you want unicast [live]? or Multi-cast?

how you want users to access the media pretty much determines how you configure Media Server and Windows Media Player.

typically for multi-cast recorded video, Windows Media Player 11 has an "other" option which points to a local folder that can be changed to point to a network distribution folder.

by raharr

I am trying to set it up like youtube for intranet users to access videos for education.

thank
Russ

by m61

you can auto-mount or map a drive to your media server for the video's

again, this all depends on your network setup

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