Internet Café Video on-demand server erection Strategy

Microsoft's Windows Media Services 9 is a platform for transmitting audio and video content to clients over the Internet (Internet) or intranet. Clients can use the Windows Media Player player directly to access video, audio content on a Windows Media Services server. For Internet cafes, you can use the software to play pre-recorded stored content on the local server to the Internet Café users.

It should be noted that in the application of Internet cafes, in addition to movies, music on-demand services, there will be the demand for broadcasting services, such as: the need to live in the intranet broadcast TV football game. When a broadcast publishing point is under construction, you will encounter the choice of "unicast" or "multicast" delivery streams given by the server system. However, for the LAN environment of Internet cafes, because the bandwidth is high enough, there is no professional router to "multicast", so should choose to use "unicast" to pass.

Before we set up a video server in an Internet café, we first want to make sure that your server has Windows Media Services 9 installed. If not, you will need to install the components. Go to Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs, click Add/Remove Windows components, select Windows Media Services in the Windows Components Wizard, insert the Windows 2003 Setup disk, and then click Next to complete the installation. After installing the Windows Media Services server, we can start setting up the media server.

The basic steps for setting up a Windows Media server include adding and configuring publishing points. The Windows Media Server can configure two types of publishing points: Broadcast publishing point and on-demand publishing point. If you intend to transfer media files and you want to allow users to control the playback of the content, you need to select the point advertised cloth point. The action is to open the WindowsMedia server and use the Add Publishing Point Wizard to create an on-demand publishing point named "movie".

When the Content Type selection dialog box appears, select the type of content you want to publish as the last option "files in the directory", and the Publish Point Type Selection dialog box appears. To select the on-demand publishing point scenario, and then when the Directory Location dialog box appears, ask us to give the server the directory where the media files are located. Click "Browse", the dialog box appears in the "Data source" click on the hard drive of the directory, in the "location" click in the directory. Then, click on the "Select Directory" on the right to return to the original dialog box.

At this point we can further the "allow the use of wildcard characters" check button; When the Content Playback dialog box appears, two check buttons are optional, the Unicast Logging dialog box appears, and the check button is optional; When you have a dialog box listing the summary of the action, click Next This completes the work of adding publishing points. Finally, follow the wizard prompts us to further create the publish file for the publishing point, which provides the player with the information it needs to connect to the Windows Media server to receive content. The publishing point for this movie server has already been created to complete.

Next we should test whether the movie server will work properly. Click on the "source" option, and then click the icon on the player below to test the video stream. Test the data flow first to ensure that the server is connected to the network, or it will eject the error message that Windows Media Player cannot play the file or connect to the Internet.

After you set up the Windows Media Server and the content you want to transfer, you need to let the user know how the movie content is accessed, and if a single address link is given to the user, the player will randomly open any movie in the playlist, a result that does not meet the demand for a movie on demand. Therefore, the Internet café needs to use the exact URL address, so that the link into a movie page, so that netizens can see the list of movies, click the corresponding movie name to play.