Microsoft Media Server or MMS protocol

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MMS or 'Microsoft Media Server' protocol is Microsoft's proprietary network streaming protocol. MMS protocol running on top of TCP and UDP transport protocols. It is extensively used by Microsoft media player software. The special capabilities of this protocol is that, it can be used to stream live audio and video content from the host server to your computer without any need to download the file before playing with media player.

Typically when accessing video files from the internet, user has to download the video first before it can play with media player. Using the MMS protocol, Windows media player can play the video without having to wait until the download process completely done. the protocol allows the data to be delivered to the client as a continuous flow with minimal delay before playback can begin. URLs that point to media clips on a Windows Media™ Server usually begin with mms://.

Tags: MMS, Microsoft Media Server, video streaming

Embed windows media file into blog post

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In this article, i would like to share with you on how to embed a windows media file such as wmf, asf, wma, mpg and all other files supported by windows media player into your blogger or wordpress post contents. To stream a Windows Media video file, you need to embed the Windows Media Player in the page where you post the video. This requires some specific HTML code included in the page or blog post where the video is linked. The simple command use for this is

<embed>

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Below is the example on how to use the embed tag in your blog posts or html page.

<embed type="video/x-ms-asf-plugin"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/download/player.htm"
showcontrols="1" showaudiocontrols="1" showdisplay="0" showgotobar="0"
showpositioncontrols="0" showstatusbar="1" showtracker="1"
animationatstart="1" autostart="1" bufferingtime="5" src="yourmediaurl"
height="400" width="450">

* change src="yourmediaurl" with a valid media url that you want to embed into your post or html page.

Tags: windows media player, embed video, embed media, embed