Player URLs for default publishing points

The URL format a client should use when connecting to a stream from a default publishing point depends on whether you have set up the default publishing point as an on-demand or broadcast publishing point, as follows:

• If the default publishing point is an on-demand publishing point, use any valid syntax for an on-demand publishing point. For more information about on-demand publishing point syntax, see Player URLs for on-demand publishing points. The requested content must be explicitly stated in the URL, such as mms://server_name/filename.wmv.
• If the default publishing point is a broadcast publishing point, use the format mms://server_name/* or mms://server_name/*.*, which requests all content referenced by the publishing point. If the publishing point is sourcing from a directory, this URL includes subdirectories.

Note

• Because of the way that Windows Media Player versions 6.4 and 7.0 parse URLs that start with MMSU and MMST, the following URL formats to request content from the default publishing point will fail if used with those players:

  mmst://server_name or mmst://server_name/

  mmsu://server_name or mmsu://server_name/

  To support those players and to use the simplified URL format, you can enable the WMS HTTP Control Protocol plug-in. This plug-in allows players that cannot resolve the URL to roll over to HTTP, which uses the URL format http://server_name.

Related topics

• Client URL reference