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After 10 years of supporting Windows Media I might have a few tips you could use.

July 2009 - Posts

WMP debug page to dump player events
Attached to this post I've included a HTML file (inside the zip) that I use all of the time to see what events the player is throwing. I've used it to see if there are scripts in a customer's video, to see how many times my player rebuffers in a particular Read More...
Forcing the embedded player to reconnect when an error occurs
In the next few posts, I am going to discuss high availability scenarios for times when you absolutely must deliver your video. For today's post, I'm going to talk about how to have an embedded version of WMP reconnect to the stream if there is an error. Read More...
How to maintain an encoder/server connection on a problematic network
I occasionally get contacted by customers that are having problems keeping their Windows Media Encoder 9 Series encoder and Windows Media Services 2008 server connected. Often it is simply that the network between the two is having some issues, however Read More...
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