Teachers.tv

[JayR]

Hello it my first time ops:
Basically I am having problem streaming with media player from teacher.tv as a user on our school network. We use an ISA server and firewall to manage our internet connections over the network.
I have tried configuring media player streaming settings to our isa server and port number but have had no look.
So if anyone could offer me some advice I would be very gratefull, and so will the teachers who have been repetetively asking with polite smiles if i've fixed the problem, and how they don't no why it doesn't work at school because it works at home.

Thanks for any help,

JayR (no relation to the one that got shot)

[ChrisC]

yea, you checked your media player proxy settings? (i think you did say you have).

some random codec needed?

Chris

[eduabncs]

We tracked this down to being a problem with how some (older) proxy software deals with variable bit rate streams ie they don't! And guess how the Teacher TV videos are encoded!!

The solution as always is an upgrade of the proxy software to the latest and greates or just download the files and then play them!

[JayR]

we are currently running ISA server 2000, is this to old?
I forgot to mention that the streaming works as an administrtor, but then things normally do.

JayR

[ChrisC]

Theres probably some activeX control or plugin that's not able to download as a standard user?

Chris

[SpuffMonkey]

I had to reinstall wmp9 - it was ok then

[JayR]

I have found a kind of resolution, I created an account and told them it would be more worthwhile for them to download the videos and have them available any time to other staff on a network drive.
They bought it off course because I used long words like "streaming" and "settings" and when their eyes started to glaze over I new I had won.

Thanks for your help.

JayR

[Edu-IT]

I've got this problem too but would prefer not to download the videos. The video briefly displays on the page then goes, and theres an error about Syntax coming up in IE.

Any ideas?