Windows Media Player

[Scot - SJIRadio]

I know there is alot posted about working with windows media player, and I have read the FAQ's about using an old ASX file format, but I still have not sucessfully managed to get a browser embedded windows media player to play from my shout cast stream. I have managed to get real player to work, but I wanted to see if anyone had got this to work.

On a rare occasion I can get the ASX file to work on a standalone player, but only on a few systems.

Also, how much is the softare to broadcast in that format?

[Jay]

Windows Media Server is free, you just need NT (i.e win2k or winXP or Win NT) to run it.

[Vchat20]

Plus Windows Media seems to be of better quality than shoutcast. which I would suggest to anyone if they dont mind MS. only problem is servers are hard to find for the simple fact that you must have win2k or an NT variant.

[Jay]

server's aren't hard to find, they just cost more. The downside to using the format is you shutout people using *nix from listening to your stream.

[Scot - SJIRadio]

I would not be making a exlusive change over. There isn't by chance a plugin that would encode the WMP stream is there?

[FesterHead]

Check out the SpacialAudio (http://www.spacialaudio.com/products/winamp/index.html) DSP.

[Vchat20]

what do you mean? like encode your own wma files to the shoutcast stream? or encode any file to a WMP stream? cuz if it is the first one, you can do that already with the old WMA decoder. man, about 98% of all my files are WMA and I can broadcast them fine.