I'm having problems getting video to stream from a 2000 server to any of my computers on the network. Here's some background. I'm building an Intranet site with an embedded video to be displayed on one page. I've already encoded the video with Premier and tested it out. It's a 45 sec clip in WMV format, about 2.5MB. All users will be using XP machines with IE6 installed. On the intranet page, i put the following code... <OBJECT ID="Player" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"> WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=240> <PARAM NAME="SRC" VALUE="http://webservername/videos/intranetintro.wvx"> <PARAM NAME="TYPE" VALUE="application/x-mplayer2"> <PARAM NAME="CONTROLS" VALUE="ImageWindow"> <PARAM NAME="AUTOSTART" VALUE="true"> </OBJECT> The SRC file above is a redirect going to the actual video, which is located in the same directory. Here's the contents of the WVX file... http://webserver/videos/intranetintro.wmv If I just double click on the WVX file, the video loads and plays. So I don't think that the WVX file is the problem. It's just the embedding part that is. That makes me question either my code (from above), or the server settings. When testing the HTML page, everything loads, except the video itself. The windows media player console embeds itself, but it does not play any video, just a black screen. I've verified all the MIME settings on the server. Everything looks fine. I had to add a few extensions, but everything is there now. I restarted IIS just for the hell of it, and still no change. I'm not used to messing around on the server, so there might be something I missed. Can anyone offer me some advise? I really want to get this video going. Thanks! Mike

I am pretty expert on Windows Media Server. I have designed and managed several media servers using 2K Media server. Well, your problem seems to be rather easy as far as I figured out. Look, first make sure your server is not behind a firewall that no one can connect to it. Then try your configuration on the server and see if you can run the video from the server it self. Then if you could not run the HTML file, you may need to go over the configuration of the HTML which I come back to that later. If you couldn't do it, try the URL of the music on the server and the clients. the URL should look like this: mms://YOUR SERVER NAME/YOUR MEDIA NAME.WMV if it worked, then you have configured the media server correctly, however, if it didn't, it shows you haven't done that correctly. then make sure you have started the madia server!!!(if it is a broadcast which I think it is not from the HTML you posted) if it is on demand then it is something else. About the tag: <OBJECT ID="Player" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"> WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=240> <PARAM NAME="SRC" VALUE="http://webservername/videos/intranetintro.wvx"> <PARAM NAME="TYPE" VALUE="application/x-mplayer2"> <PARAM NAME="CONTROLS" VALUE="ImageWindow"> <PARAM NAME="AUTOSTART" VALUE="true"> </OBJECT> in the VALUE="http://webservername/videos/intranetintro.wvx"> tag, why you haven't changed the WEBSERVERNAME with your own server name? you might have forgotten it!!! Do it from the begining. Do it using the media server wzard. it may be the solution to your problem, if it didn't work and you tried the URL and it worked, you may want to forget using the HTML tag and create an ASX file containing the URL I posted earlier. Put a reference to it in the webpage you want your clients to access to and you are done!!! pheewwww, it was quite an answer!!! wasn't it!! My email is webmaster@arnit.i989.net and you can contact me if you had any further questions. I would be happy to help you!! Alireza