Streaming Wma Files

[greenhornet26]

My students are developing a website for a competition and have streamed Realplayer files, but we have no idea how to stream windows media or quicktime files. Please help.

[youneverknow]

To check out some different formats in multiple browsers go to

http://www.rjskon.com/streaming_audio/

also check out this tutorial: http://smw.internet.com/audio/tutor/

do a google search on this and you will find tons.

youneverknow

[ThumpAZ]

However, TCH Servers to not provide inherent facilities for streaming media. You will be limited to the streaming abilities of html.

Also, watch your bandwidth when streaming media... it gets eaten up very fast.

[8point2]

However, TCH Servers to not provide inherent facilities for streaming media.  You will be limited to the streaming abilities of html.

Also, watch your bandwidth when streaming media... it gets eaten up very fast.

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Hi! I am relatively new to streaming content. I used that link posted above, with all the tutorials for how to "stream" on a shared server using HTML. Using .ram and .rm files, I had no problem. However, using WMA files, I encountered some difficulty.

 

I was using an .asx file which read like this

 

<ASX VERSION="3.0">

<ENTRY>

<REF HREF="http://www......wma" />

</ENTRY>

</ASX>

 

And I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, because whenever you clicked the asx link, it just showed the text contents of the asx file (as shown above) in the browser. This was in Firefox, my default browser. However, when I switched to IE, the streaming wma worked properly.

 

Can you suggest any reason why this would be, and if there is any way to get .wmas to stream on non-windows browsers?

 

Thank you!

[TCH-Bruce]

I believe ASX would be an active X control which Firefox cannot (thank goodness) open.

[8point2]

I believe ASX would be an active X control which Firefox cannot (thank goodness) open.

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Ohh, is there any other simple alternative to stream a wma? I don't want to make any fancy players or interfaces or anything, I just want it to open up in WMP and play as it downloads.

 

Thanks for the quick reply!

[TCH-Bruce]

Convert it to an mp3 file instead of WMA. That should work.

[ThatAdamGuy]

No, ASX has nothing to do with active X!

 

It's a streaming media 'stub' file... it contains information on a media file; it's like an m3u or pls file in a way.

 

Google for more info