Re: Squid & MS Media Player - Please HELP!!!

Dear Bradshaw,

        I am using squid-2.3.Stable1 and i have no problem like this , Right
now My Bandwidth is chowk I will check this In morning and will let u know
if i will have any error message,

are u using squid as Transparent.???

With Regards
Ahsan Khan
Sr. System Admin
Internet Division (OneNet)
Sun Communication Pvt. Ltd.
http://www.one.net.pk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradshaw Andrew" <bradshawa@northlan.gov.uk>
To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 9:13 PM
Subject: Squid & MS Media Player - Please HELP!!!

> Apologies for re posting. I'm getting desperate.
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradshaw Andrew
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 10:16
> To: 'squid-users@ircache.net'
> Subject: FW: Squid & MS Media Player
>
>
> > Hi
> > Apologies if this has been covered before . . . .
> >
> > Background - Feel free to skip !
> > I'm piloting a system that will provide Internet access to sites with
6-50
> > PCs used by members of the public. Each site will have an avge 64Kbit
> > link. My intention is to install proxies at each site which are chained
> > to a top level box. I would like to install Squid as both parent &
child.
> > However probs with MS Media Player give more weight to my managers
> > insistence on installing NT & Microsoft Proxy.
> >
> > I'm trying to setup a group of PCs, running NT, IE4 & IE5, Windows Media
> > Player 6.4.07, to use Squid 2.2STABLE5 as their proxy server.
> >
> > Problem
> > Everything is fine until they try to access streaming content in WMP
> > format. I have configured WMP to use HTTP only thru the browsers proxy.
> > npr.org's audio newsfeed is fine. However, audio & video from
> > www.zdnet.com/zdtv/radio and most other sites produce errors along the
> > lines of example one below. Most sites that do provide a HTTP Unicast
> > feed give similar errors, particularly for video.
> >
> > If I reconfigure the PCs to go thru a MS Proxy 2.0, the audio video
> > streams work ok.
> > I tested a few of the sites from my home PC, proxied thru my ISPs Squid
> > 2.2STABLE4 server & they worked ok.
> >
> > My compromise was to install RealPlayer 7.0, which works ok. However,
my
> > users are complaining that most of the sites they visit provide WMP
> > content only.
> >
> > Help!! -Links to FAQs etc are perfectly acceptable :-)
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > Example One
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> > "Cannot open
> >
'mms://ns2-bld.vstream.com/basic/providers/ZD/zdtv/zdtvradio/radio_000217.
> > asf'. Please verify that the path and filename are correct and try
> > again."
> >
> > "UDP protocol not enabled. Not trying
> >
mmsu://ns2-bld.vstream.com/basic/providers/ZD/zdtv/zdtvradio/radio_000217.
> > asf. (Error=C00D00D1)
> >
> > TCP protocol not enabled. Not trying
> >
mmst://ns2-bld.vstream.com/basic/providers/ZD/zdtv/zdtvradio/radio_000217.
> > asf. (Error=C00D00D2)
> >
> > Invalid name:
> >
http://ns2-bld.vstream.com/basic/providers/ZD/zdtv/zdtvradio/radio_000217.
> > asf. The file name specified is incorrect. (Error=80004005)
> >
> > Cannot open
> >
'mms://ns2-bld.vstream.com/basic/providers/ZD/zdtv/zdtvradio/radio_000217.
> > asf'. Please verify that the path and filename are correct and try
again.
> > (Error=80004005)"
> >
> >
> > The resulting help from the MS "More Help" button is worth a visit ;-)
> >
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/support/mperr.asp?prd=Window
> >
s&spb=MediaPlayer&pver=6.4.7.1028&os=WinNT&over=4.0.1381&olcid=0x409&clcid
> > =0x809&id=80004005&id=C00D00D2&id=C00D00D1
> >
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Received on Tue Feb 22 2000 - 23:55:04 MST