I am trying to get a television station streaming on a DNN site. The stream is coming into a dedicated server running Windows Media Server. It seems that simply dropping the code to embed a player into to the HTML module does not work. Does anyone have any experience with this or with using video or WMS with DNN? I know there are modules, and I have one but it won't really do what I need it to do and I can't seem to find a workable solution.

(May as well mention I am also looking for someone to develop a skin for us. Have one but it doesn't work well because it is css and looks different on every single computer.)

Beth Vest
http://www.fptv17.com/default.aspx

Hi Beth..

We have the same type of setup.  An external camera in which Windows Media Encoder is connecting to the camera and encoding the stream and then we have Windows Media Server connecting to the stream and feeding it to a DNN webpage.

You should first check and see if you can connect to your MMS stream by opening Windows Media Player on a client computer and then opening the URL of your MMS feed; eg. mms://websitedomainname.com/camerafeed.  If you see the stream then WMS is up and running fine.

Below, you will find our code which I entered into a HTML module on our camera page and it works fine.  Works for IE and other browsers as well.  Hope this helps.. -Jeff

<div id="ExternalCamera" style="height: 492px">
<meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /><style type="text/css">
     body {color: navy; font-family: Arial, sans-serif }
    </style>
<div>
<p>&#160;</p>
<table border="2">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td height="480" width="640"><object id="mediaPlayer" type="application/x-oleobject" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" height="480" width="640">
            <param value="mms://%ENTER YOUR MMS STREAM NAME HERE%" name="URL" />
            <param value="True" name="animationatStart" />
            <param value="True" name="transparentatStart" />
            <param value="True" name="autoStart" />
            <param value="False" name="ShowControls" />
            <param value="False" name="ShowAudioControls" />
            <param value="False" name="ShowDisplay" />
            <param value="False" name="ShowPositionControls" />
            <param value="False" name="ShowStatusBar" />
            <param value="true" name="windowlessVideo" />
            <param value="False" name="loop" /><embed id="mediaPlayer" type="application/x-mplayer2" height="480" width="640" loop="0" designtimesp="5311" autostart="1" src="mms://%ENTER YOUR MMS STREAM NAME HERE%" videoborder3d="0" showstatusbar="0" showdisplay="0" showtracker="1" showcontrols="0" bgcolor="darkblue" autosize="0" displaysize="4" name="mediaPlayer" pluginspage="http://microsoft.com/windows/mediapla...>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
</div>
<p>&#160;</p>
</div>

Hi Beth,

I also run Window Media Server for live feeds, and also support a small television station.  The issues of it stopping or going blank with audio only sounds like there may be a choke point for the stream, possibly encoding at too high of a rate for the bandwidth?    

In DNN, I use similar code to the above but I use a play list instead of putting in the mms connection directly (uses an ascx page).   The playlist can be kept in a DNN folder so the site admin can easily replace it without touching WMS. 

If you use use windows media player in DNN, the user should be able to right click the menu and then select Zoom Full Screen.  There is a parm to disable this  menu, but I think it is on by default.    See this page with a live stream for a small local cable TV station in southern Virginia, I wonder if this works for you.   http://www.btw21.com/programs/LiveStr...    If it does, I can get more details for you.