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This property contains the protocol used to receive data. This property is read-only.

Compatibility:Windows Media Player

Syntax

[ 
lProtocol = ] MediaPlayer.SourceProtocol

Parameters

lProtocol

Long value specifying the protocol used to receive data. The following table shows the possible values.

Value Visual Basic constant Description

1

nsMulticast

Multicasting with no control connection.

2

nsMulticastPlus

Multicasting with control connection.

3

nsUDP

User Datagram Protocol.

4

nsTCP

Transmission Control Protocol.

5

nsDistribution

MSBD protocol. Typically used to connect directly to the encoder for test purposes.

6

nsHTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

7

nsFile

Local file playback.

Requirements

Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 3.0 and later

See Also