View IPTV using Windows Media Player

[rraze]

I have a customer who does not want to install Cisco's IPTV viewer on their clients PCs. They would prefer to use Windows Media Player to view both scheduled and VoD streams from their 3427 Broadcast Servers. Is this possible and if so how is it done?

Thanks,

R2

[owillins]

Using Windows Media Player to view Cisco IP/TV programs is not currently possible. Cisco IP/TV uses standards based formats and protocols - SDP, MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4 over RTP, etc whereas WMP works on Microsoft's proprietary streaming protocols and hence are not compatible. However, with IP/TV version 3.5, Apple's QuickTime plug-in can be used to view the IP/TV programs using a browser.

[loevans]

R2,

Couple of things. If you want to stay away from the installed program, you can use the IPTV plugin, which works fine.

Also, the latest versions of IPTV (I think beginning with 5.1) support the Apple Darwin (QT Streaming server) which will allow you to use the QuickTime plugin for the browser for streaming support and is also free.

If you absolutely must use Windows Media, you can do that through the integrated ACNS/IPTV package, but that's not, let's say, fully baked yet.