Testing the announcement files

From this page, you can test the files created by the announcement wizard.

• Test announcement. Click Test to start Windows Media Player and connect to the stream.
• Test Web page with an embedded player. Click the Test button to open the Web page in your browser. You will be able to see the stream from your publishing point in the embedded Player.

Notes

• If the content does not play back during the test, check the following:
  1. If you accepted the default file locations for the multicast information file and the announcement file, ensure that you are running Internet Information Services (IIS) on the same server as Windows Media Services. If you are not running IIS, clients cannot access the multicast information file.
  2. Because Windows Media Services logs on using the Network Service account, make sure that all files and folders that you are accessing have granted read permissions to the Network Service account.
  3. Make sure that the URL of the multicast information file matches the location of the multicast information file.
• Multicast streaming and the WMS Multicast Data Writer plug-in are available only if Windows Media Services 9 Series is running on the following editions of the operating system: Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition. If you are running Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, these features are not supported.