Problem connecting to (multicast) MPEG2 TS AndersC 12.06.2007 16:51:01 Hi, I'm running out of things to try now and hope someone can give some help.. I'm trying to watch a MPEG2 transport stream, multicasted, with WMP11. The stream originates from a VLC set to stream out a MPEG2 file (properly encoded, as far as I know), and I can watch it on a set top box (kreatel/motorola 1510) or on a VLC player on either the same computer or another one on the same network. I'm using multicast on 224.5.5.5:1234 I have tried several different MPEG2-codecs, both paid for (InterVideo/ Elecard) and free-/trialware (Nvidia, ATI and some more), and the file plays if I open it locally, but when trying to open the stream it gives me an error (one of severeal different, usually "can't open URL" or something similar. OS: Win XP I've tried using the URL "udp://224.5.5.5:1234", "rtp://224.5.5.5:1234", "udp://[ at ]224.5.5.5" and so on, combining them differently each time. Does anybody know how to open a multicasted MPEG2 TS in WMP? Is it at all possible? (I can't do anything about the origin of the stream, so switching to a MS media/streaming server is not an option) Any help at all is greatly appreciated! TIA, /Anders

Re: Problem connecting to (multicast) MPEG2 TS "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil[ at ]nospam.com> 12.06.2007 20:58:06 I'm not sure if you're aware, but the title of this newsgroup is "microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player.mac" and applie to Mac WMP only. If you want MPEG2 TS, WMP can't accept that for multicast AFAIK. Instead, you should use VideoLAN to connect to the stream and play the file. It's free, you can get it from http://www.videolan.org/ Make sure to pick the windows binaries, not the Mac ones ;-)) HTH Cheers - Neil On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:51:01 -0700, AndersC <AndersC[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Hi, I'm running out of things to try now and hope someone can give some help.. > >I'm trying to watch a MPEG2 transport stream, multicasted, with WMP11. > >The stream originates from a VLC set to stream out a MPEG2 file (properly >encoded, as far as I know), and I can watch it on a set top box >(kreatel/motorola 1510) or on a VLC player on either the same computer or >another one on the same network. >I'm using multicast on 224.5.5.5:1234 > >I have tried several different MPEG2-codecs, both paid for (InterVideo/ >Elecard) and free-/trialware (Nvidia, ATI and some more), and the file plays >if I open it locally, but when trying to open the stream it gives me an error >(one of severeal different, usually "can't open URL" or something similar. > >OS: Win XP > >I've tried using the URL "udp://224.5.5.5:1234", "rtp://224.5.5.5:1234", >"udp://[ at ]224.5.5.5" and so on, combining them differently each time. > > >Does anybody know how to open a multicasted MPEG2 TS in WMP? > >Is it at all possible? >(I can't do anything about the origin of the stream, so switching to a MS >media/streaming server is not an option) > > >Any help at all is greatly appreciated! > >TIA, > >/Anders ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Re: Problem connecting to (multicast) MPEG2 TS AndersC 12.06.2007 21:24:00 Hi Neil, I noticed the ".mac" at the end after I posted the question.. and I probably got thrown in under Macintosh because I used my Mac when I started searching the newsgroups (but I couldn't post, not with firefox nor safari, so I had to break out my old PC laptop to post a question..), and just copied the URL to this machine. I've tried VLC (Videolan), and it works perfectly.. but I'm trying to find out if I can do it with WMP (on a Win XP-system). So far I've come to the same conclusion.. it just doesn't work with multicast-streamed MPEG2. :( Thanks anyway! /Anders "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I'm not sure if you're aware, but the title of this newsgroup is > "microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player.mac" and applie to Mac WMP only. > > If you want MPEG2 TS, WMP can't accept that for multicast AFAIK. > Instead, you should use VideoLAN to connect to the stream and play the > file. It's free, you can get it from http://www.videolan.org/ > > Make sure to pick the windows binaries, not the Mac ones ;-)) > > HTH > Cheers - Neil > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:51:01 -0700, AndersC > <AndersC[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >Hi, I'm running out of things to try now and hope someone can give some help.. > > > >I'm trying to watch a MPEG2 transport stream, multicasted, with WMP11. > > > >The stream originates from a VLC set to stream out a MPEG2 file (properly > >encoded, as far as I know), and I can watch it on a set top box > >(kreatel/motorola 1510) or on a VLC player on either the same computer or > >another one on the same network. > >I'm using multicast on 224.5.5.5:1234 > > > >I have tried several different MPEG2-codecs, both paid for (InterVideo/ > >Elecard) and free-/trialware (Nvidia, ATI and some more), and the file plays > >if I open it locally, but when trying to open the stream it gives me an error > >(one of severeal different, usually "can't open URL" or something similar. > > > >OS: Win XP > > > >I've tried using the URL "udp://224.5.5.5:1234", "rtp://224.5.5.5:1234", > >"udp://[ at ]224.5.5.5" and so on, combining them differently each time. > > > > > >Does anybody know how to open a multicasted MPEG2 TS in WMP? > > > >Is it at all possible? > >(I can't do anything about the origin of the stream, so switching to a MS > >media/streaming server is not an option) > > > > > >Any help at all is greatly appreciated! > > > >TIA, > > > >/Anders > ------------------------------------------------ > Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007 > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs >