WMS Unicast Data Writer - general properties

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WMS Unicast Data Writer - general properties

The WMS Unicast Data Writer plug-in is used to transmit content through unicast streaming. You can configure the following options for the plug-in.

Item	Description
Protocols	Settings in this area control how unicast streams are transmitted over a network.
TCP	Select this check box to allow unicast transmission of data from application-layer control protocols, such as RTSP and HTTP, by the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) transport protocol.
UDP	Select this check box to allow unicast transmission of data from application-layer control protocols, such as MMS and RTSP, by the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) transport protocol.
Use default packet size from content	Select this option to have the header information in the content stream determine the optimum packet size for streaming.
Use maximum packet size (in bytes)	Select this option to specify the number of bytes that each streaming packet should contain. The default packet size is 1452 bytes. The minimum number of bytes per packet is 36; the maximum number of bytes per packet is 65507.

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Changes made to this plug-in are applied to new client connection requests only. Clients that are already connected to the server are not affected.
When using a UDP-based RTSP protocol (RTSPU), setting the RTSP packet size to a very small value can prevent the Windows Media server from being able to stream. For more information about unicast packet sizes, see How unicast works.

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