My webcast button doesn't work anymore

[lvsoule]

Hi - in the VT4 drop down menu at the bottom it has a stream live button that looks kind of like a TV transmitter tower. It used to work and when clicked produced a 190.xxx.xx.x code that would be a streaming URL. It no longer works. It's somehow been decactivated. I'm assuming it was sometime with in all the various patches and updates I've done. I don't know what update it went out on, but when it was VT3 it worked. I now run VT4.6.

I also have VT5 running and the streaming isn't working on it either.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! This forum has been awesome in helping me pinpoint many things!!! Thanks Guys
-Larry

[lvsoule]

Ok I found it in the pull-down menu- but now I have a different question. I'm in Utah and trying to broadcast a video. I can see the video that I'm "Streaming" on my internal networked computers with mms://192.168.X.XX:80, but my client in Phoenix cannot by typing in the URL. I think I'm sending him a local network URL and I need to send a different type. I use Comcast Cable for internet.

Any suggestions would be awesome
-Larry

[kltv]

I'd go to http://www.whatismyip.com to get your real world IP address. That is what you'd give your client plus a port number. You may need configure your router for "Port Forwarding" to send requests through your network to your streaming machine. That process varies from router to router, but basically you need to log in to the control panel page and set it up to forward a port, say 8080 to the IP address of your streaming computer.

Kris

[rbartlett]

kltv has said it really. Port 80 (TCP) may be reserved and protected by your router/access-device. So the pointer to use 8080 instead would be a translational mapping of 8080 externally to 80 internally (to save changing the port that your router listens on for management purposes).

Many routers cannot do a translating port forward. YMMV.
Also, check that your internal port (MMS: 80 in your example) doesn't change between sessions. Or you'll more likely need a blanked forwarding config, aka DMZ Host.

Windows (XP SP1 or SP2) firewall may need to be tweaked to open up the original MMS port access (it won't know about 8080 as the router will be facing off to that part of the connectivity). As you were able to connect locally, this may well not be required (depends on the scope applied to the firewall exception entry).

If there are many users you may need a rebroadcasting service operating as a bandwidth-pool and access brokerage.

Good luck!

[bob anderson]

Figuring out how to get out thru all the firewalls was a project for me. Once i got around all of that i seem to be able to stream 100% of the time. So i'd expect that might be the issue.

bob anderson