[Live-devel] Problems using Windows Media Player

[Jeremy Noring]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, <james.whetstone at kodak.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm testing/evaluating the Live media server with the VLC Media Player and
> Windows Media Player, but I can't seem to get anything to play on WMP even
> though the same stream plays correctly using  VLC.   I'm streaming from the
> local host by using a URL : "rtsp://localhost/<filename>".   Have I missed
> something about using WMP and Live?
>

WMP uses a non-standard form of RTSP, so it's generally incompatible with
standards based RTSP servers.  About the only thing it works well with is
Windows Media Services, which generally uses a proprietary protocol called
mms, or raw HTTP.
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