interfacing with windows media server

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yacahuma
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interfacing with windows media server

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Hello,

I have a client that is going to be using windows media server to encode some tv programs. He wants to be able to search the closed caption data inside windows media server and to get results. He already have a php application and this will be another part of it.

I was thinking that it will be nice if I could do something like

http://mediaserver/search.xxx?cc=bush+crazy

and get the results in some kind of xml, maybe something like

<data>
<item>
<video_link>http://mediaserver/stream.xxx?{whaterever parameters wms use to get here}</video_link>
</item>
<item>
<video_link>http://mediaserver/stream.xxx?{whaterever parameters wms use to get here}</video_link>
</item>
<item>
<video_link>http://mediaserver/stream.xxx?{whaterever parameters wms use to get here}</video_link>
</item>
</data>


The idea is that I could show the results, just like if I did a normal search on a database, maybe with a little thumbnail, and when the user click on it, that part of the video will star to stream.
I have no idea how windows media server works or how can I search on it. At this point I am just looking for some guidance.

Thank you
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ghurtado
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Re: interfacing with windows media server

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yacahuma wrote: I have no idea how windows media server works or how can I search on it.
I don't have any idea how it works either, sorry. But I do know how to search on it:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windo ... +server%22
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yacahuma
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Re: interfacing with windows media server

Post by yacahuma »

Well, I read that much. What I meant is, that I cant find the kind of info I need of how to interface it, and maybe someone here has done that before. I posted my question here after , I was not able to find the right info at google. Either I am looking for the wrong keywords, or there is no interface like the one I was hoping.
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