is there any link checker for streaming media?

[w2ks]

Hello,
we have a bunch of streaming videos hosted by a different unit of the
company. a lot of times our streaming media just won't work. when played
using WMP, it would stop, and it won't stream. we would then
need to contact whoever's in charge of the streaming media, and he would then
"do something" before we could get our streaming videos/audios to work again.

does anyone know a product out there that can check the availability of a
streaming media?

if not, can anyone point me to a right direction(which class/object to use)
in windows media SDK in order to write some sort of link checker for
streaming media? in web logs, there are 200 or 400 return code that indicates
whether a call to a webpage is successful or not. i wonder if anything like
this exist in the SDK?

thank you

[Alessandro Angeli]

From: "w2ks"

> if not, can anyone point me to a right direction(which
> class/object to use) in windows media SDK in order to
> write some sort of link checker for streaming media? in
> web logs, there are 200 or 400 return code that indicates
> whether a call to a webpage is successful or not. i
> wonder if anything like this exist in the SDK?

You can open URLs to WM streams in the WMReader object
included in the WM runtime (see the remarks to
IWMReader::Open() in the WindowsMediaFormat SDK, now also
included in the Windows SDK - requires C++ or .NET through
the open source WindowsMedia.NET wrapper),

You can also use the WindowsMediaPlayer ActiveX control in
any automation-aware language, even a web page, to open the
URL (see the WindowsMediaPlayer SDK, now also included in
the Windows SDK).

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[w2ks]

i'll give this a a shot!. thank you!!!

"Alessandro Angeli" wrote:

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[w2ks]

i;ll give this a shot!. THANK YOU!!

"Alessandro Angeli" wrote:

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