Streaming to ActiveX for Windows Media Player

This page describes how to stream to ActiveX for Windows Media Player.

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Use case

• Stream from a webcam on computer A (running Microsoft Windows) to
• Computer B (running Linux) which broadcasts the stream to
• Computer C (running Microsoft Windows) with a web browser and Windows Media Player

Procedure

Computer A

Configure your capture device as follows:

• Use a codec that Windows Media Player recognizes, such as:

Type	Codec
Video codec	DIV3 or possibly WMV
Audio codec	mp3
Container	ASF

• Use communcation settings that Windows Media Player recognizes, such as:

Item	Suggested value
Transport	MMSH
Address	Computer A's IP address, say 10.1.2.3
Port	Any value over 8000, say 8123

Computer B

• Install vlc (e.g., via yum) or build from source
• Invoke vlc with the command line options to stream to via a port (e.g., 8456) on computer B (with IP address 10.4.5.6)

vlc -vvv mmsh://10.1.2.3:8123 --sout='#standard{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,url=10.4.5.6:8456}'

• Embed the following in a web page (e.g., in /home/myaccount/public_html/bcast.htm) to be served from computer B:

<OBJECT id="Player" width="320" height="240" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" type="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="mms://10.4.5.6:8456">
<PARAM NAME="SendPlayStateChangeEvents" VALUE="True">
<PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="True">
<PARAM name="uiMode" value="full">
<PARAM name="PlayCount" value="9999">
<PARAM NAME="stretchtofit" value="true">
</OBJECT>

Computer C

• Browse the web page from computer B (e.g., http://10.4.5.6/~myaccount/bcast.htm)