Streaming vs. Downloading

I'm not sure if this is the wrong forum for this question...but I couldn't
find a better one. Please direct me elsewhere if you no of a better place
to pose this.

Basically, if I host a media file on my IIS server and I'd like the user to
click on a list of files and have it automatically play in whatever their
default player for that file type is, how would I do that? If I simply set
up the browse function, the user has to download the file and then it will
play. I'd like to stream/buffer it. Similar to what shoutcast does but
allowing the user to browse the files via a list and click --> stream.

I imagine I'll have to use some ASP to handle the lists, but how should the
link(s) render for this to stream/buffer instead of download?

Thanks,
James

Tom
Wed Jul 13 10:48:06 CDT 2005

"James" <letyoudown@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:OEKeL97hFHA.576@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> I'm not sure if this is the wrong forum for this question...but I couldn't
> find a better one. Please direct me elsewhere if you no of a better place
> to pose this.
>
> Basically, if I host a media file on my IIS server and I'd like the user
> to
> click on a list of files and have it automatically play in whatever their
> default player for that file type is, how would I do that? If I simply
> set
> up the browse function, the user has to download the file and then it will
> play. I'd like to stream/buffer it. Similar to what shoutcast does but
> allowing the user to browse the files via a list and click --> stream.
>
> I imagine I'll have to use some ASP to handle the lists, but how should
> the
> link(s) render for this to stream/buffer instead of download?

For streaming, have a look at Windows Media Services:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/server.aspx

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