Identifying the content location

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Specify where Windows Media Services can locate the content you want to stream from your publishing point. The field on this page differs depending on the content type you selected on the Content Type page. Use the following table to help you determine the proper syntax to use to identify the content location.

Selected content type Location syntax

Encoder

On the Encoder URL page, type the URL from which the encoder is sending the content. The URL information is available on the encoder machine. The URL has the following syntax:

https://encoder:port

If you do not specify a port number, the server will try to connect to the encoder on the default port of 8080.

Playlist

On the File Location page, select one of the following options:

  • New playlist. Select this option to let the wizard take you through the steps involved in creating a new playlist. (For more information, see Creating a new playlist file.) When you save the new playlist file, you will specify a location that will be used as the content location for the publishing point.

  • Existing playlist. Select this option to specify the location of the playlist file using a local path or an URL. For example:

    C:\folder\playlist.wsx
https://web_server/playlist.wsx

Windows Media playlist files use a .wsx file name extension.

One File

On the File Location page, type the name and location of the file you want to stream. The file can be locally stored on the server or available on a remote drive through a local area network (LAN). For example:

C:\folder\file.wmv
\\computer\folder\file.wmv

Windows Media Services can stream files with the following file name extensions by default: .wma, .wmv, .asf, .wsx, and .mp3.

Files

On the Directory Location page, type the directory path to the content you want to stream. For example:

C:\folder
\\computer\folder

If you are creating an on-demand publishing point, select the Enable access to directory content using wildcards check box if you want to be able to stream all of the files in the directory in order. You can then use an announcement file to determine whether users will be connecting to a single file or to all of the files in the directory.

Note

If your content location is a folder on another computer on your network, make sure that the server computer has at least read access to the folder. This allows the server to connect to the resource even if the system administrator is logged off.

Note

The Add Publishing Point Wizard does not allow you to use multicast information files (files with .nsc file name extensions) as a content source. If you need to use your new publishing point to rebroadcast content from a multicast broadcast publishing point, specify a file content source here and then modify the publishing point. For more information, see Sourcing from a multicast broadcast.