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Windows Streaming Media Server

  1. Access your account
  2. Map a network drive as follows:

    \\streamer.ics.purdue.edu\asfroot\username

    where "ics\username" is your career account login id.

  3. Drop in your media files
  4. Drop your content into the "username" folder, where "username" is your career account login id, located on the server.

  5. Link to your content on the streaming server
  6. Use the following URL, substituting your username and filename.

    http://streamer.ics.purdue.edu/username/filename.ext

    or

    mms://streamer.ics.purdue.edu/username/filename.ext

    Example:
    http://streamer.ics.purdue.edu/jdoe/myfile.wmv

    Note: If you are providing the link from within a WebCT Vista course, make sure you use "http" only. The Microsoft Media Services protocol ("mms://") is not supported in WebCT Vista.

File types supported on the Windows Streaming Server
Video: wmv .avi
Audio: wma MP3 .wav

Windows Media Player can be used to view files on this server.