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Hi, I wonder if someone can help, please
I am coding up a web application using ASP, C#, and a bit of javascript, and wish to enable videos from the server to be played in a popup window. I am using Windows Media Player.
Two specific questions I have:
1. I want the video to start playing automatically as soon as possible after the popup window opens, and so want to make use of the video buffer to stream. At the moment, however, the video loads but won’t start playing until the video is fully loaded. I have noticed that the windows media player is not displaying at the bottom of the player the fact that it is buffering, and wonder if anyone can help. I probably need to change some default parameters when popping up the window and running windows media player? Any ideas?
2. Also, I’d like to show a 'gallery' of videos that are available, similar in principle to that shown in windows explorer when viewing a directory of videos. I’d like the first frame of a video to be displayed to give some indication of content, and I wonder if anyone knows how to do that without going to the trouble of playing the first frame, capturing it, and displaying it as a static graphic. Any ideas?
Great if you can help ! 
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Are your windows media files coming off a media server or a web server? You can set the size of the buffer when the file is encoded for files being fed from a media server. If the file is coming from a web server the clients media player settings will determine how of the media to download before playback begins (known as "progressive download")
Tom
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Hi, thanks for the reply.
I'm unsure what is the difference between a 'media server' and a 'web server', (and so it's probably the latter.)
The file is simply one that is uploaded onto the server, and then read back from the server when presented in the media player. There is no encoding that takes place on the media file itself.
I'm unsure how to set the client's media player to perform progressive download, although can see some of the buffer parameters when inspecting the properties during run-time.
thanks again.
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a web server delivers data as fast as it can, in bursts... great for delivering files but not for the constant bitstream that streaming media requires... hence media servers. If the media is Windows Media and is delivered from a web server (HTTP) then it will automatically come down to the client media player as a progressive download. If it is delivered from a Windows Media Server (for instance, check out VitalStream's services and a streaming media host) AND the URL is mms://..../mymediafile.wmv and NOT http://......../mymediafile.wmv is will be streamed at a constant bitrate (the media file stays on the media server... the ongoing bitstream is read and discarded at the client).
hope this helps
tom
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Thanks.
I am downloading from a web server, but want progressive downloading in the way that you describe happens via a media server, I think. In sum, I just want the media player to play the first amount of data downloaded while the remainder is downloading, (displaying the buffer contents, if you like.)
Do you know how to do that using the web server technology? I have before downloaded a media file from a standard linux server, and Windows Media Player at the client took care of buffering etc. But you seem to be suggesting that the Windows Server I have will have to be especially configured for streaming?
Thanks again. 
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If you will be having a lot of "hits" its better to locate the media on a media server for the sake of quality delivery. If you run a small web server, you can use Windows Media Encoder (can be downloaded from MSDN downloads) to handle up to 10 connections for streaming the windows media to the client. If you just want to make the file available for download... all you have to do is put the file on your web server and Windows Media Player will handle the download and the buffering and playback during download. I can't speak for other streaming media types since I work exclusively with WinMedia... but I'm pretty sure they are the same as far a progressive download. The best way to feed a file to the client is to use an playlist file that refers to the actual movie or audio file(s) you wish to make available. Download the Windows Media Player SDK... its very thorough.
Tom
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Hi,
I have one web page with button.When i click the button I want to Invoke EXE from my client(The EXE is already in Client),Is it possible or not .If it possible then How?Please help me.....
Regards,
Justindhas
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From what I can Remember this function if open not allowed in HTML pr JavaScript.
This is for the obvious reason that people don't want websites accessing their files.
You may be able to do this however, through the nightmare that is Java. I think that6 an applet would be able to call a file.
Oh well good luck with this.
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I've used the create an ActiveX which calls ShellExecute to fire up an external app - works quite well
"Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......"
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Process rsProc = new Process();
rsProc.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = "C:\\Microsoft SQL Server\\90\\Tools\\Binn\\";
rsProc.StartInfo.FileName = "rs.exe";
rsProc.StartInfo.Arguments = "-i _runreport.rss -s http://10.254.124.190/ReportServer -v ID=" + ID;
rsProc.Start();
rsProc.WaitForExit();
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I will preface this by saying I am not a programmer. I can usually customize code to suit my needs but that's about it.
I hope I can describe what I am looking for.
I am looking to count how many times a button (just an image with a _blank url) is pressed and show that count on another page.
I've attempted to Google this with no good results.
If you can't help me can you point me in the right direction? I'm doing this for work. Not something I am hired to do but as a freelancer I try to give as much as I can.
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function count_click()
{
var btn_hit = document.form_name.hidden_name.value;
counter = btn_hit + 1;
btn_hit = counter;
}
through hidden variable you can pass the counter value to the next page 
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I have a question about uploading files with PHP that I was hoping someone could help me with. I am able to upload a .txt file to a directory I created called uploads, however when I open the file with my text editor it is blank. When I list the files in this directory with the ls –la command it says the owner of the file is apache and not my username. The permission are –rw-------, so I do not think I have read permission since I am not the owner, however it will not let me change the permissions on the file. It says, changing permissions is not permitted.
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That is quite a conundrum.
ranro2006 wrote: when I open the file with my text editor it is blank.
Does that mean the server is local?
What OS is the server running on?
Can you further explain your problem and provide the code you use?
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chmod 755 permission to the folder where you want to store images.
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please help me to start using the atlas in my portal.
i need requirements of s/w to use for it.
please give some links to write code for it using vb.net.
Thanx
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hii
i upload my web site to server http://www.vwdhosting.net/ and i upload to another server
the web site show runtime error
this is the error
An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.)
the problem occur when the web site run into the server but
when run into vwd the page work correct
in vwd i used the data base in the server
i use vwd2005
thank you
abdullah
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Is the SQL Server on the same box as the web app? if so try using localhost as the host location.
or else you have to confiore the access rights in your SQL Server to allow connections from the IP of the box you are connecting from. Remember that if it not in your LAN you use your IP, else you use your... LAN IP (im tired).
Hope that helped.
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thank you
how ican used the LAN IP
abdullah
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Enter the LAN IP of the computer with the SQL Server.
Example:
192.186.0.4
Every network is structured differently. Google the topic to get information. If you are in an office ask the companies Admin for the SQL Server's IP.
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I have developed a web service in our company.I want to only allow our customers' code to call our webservice,But I don't have much knowlogy on web sevice security.Can any one help me?
Also are there basic security issues i should look into or does any one have any resources/links that will help me make a secure site.
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What sort of web app? Which language? What remote resources (files, databses, etc.) does it use?
How is the general security?
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when i copy the html of asp page and put it in .net (aspx page), the appearance of the page is damaged and changed from the appearance of asp classic
is this problem has relation to standard html and nonstandard html?
and how can i solve this problem.
thanks in advance.
haitham
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