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CastingWmaPubPointOpenForPlayer method

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Remarks

 

Creates a casting session in WMA format to a publishing point of a Windows Media Server for the output of the given player; if the player shouldn't have any sound loaded, the call to this method will fail.

After creating the casting session, you can start it through the CastingStart method.

 

Further information about management of casting sessions can be found inside the How to use the control as a source for streaming servers like SHOUTcast tutorial.

 

 

Syntax

 

[Visual Basic]

control.CastingWmaPubPointOpenForPlayer (

nPlayer as Integer,

strUrlPublishingPoint as String,

strUsername as String,

strPassword as String

nBitrate as Long

) as Long


 

[C++]

long control.CastingWmaPubPointOpenForPlayer (

short nPlayer,

LPCTSTR strUrlPublishingPoint,

LPCTSTR strUsername,

LPCTSTR strPassword,

long nBitrate

);


 

 

Parameter

Description

 

 

nPlayer

Number representing the zero-based index of the involved player

strUrlPublishingPoint

URL of the publishing point

strUsername

Username of the server

strPassword

Password of the server

nBitrate

Bitrate expressed in bits per seconds

 

 

 

Return value

 

Value

Meaning

 

 

> 0

Numeric value representing the unique identifier of the casting session: this unique identifier will be used in order to invoke further methods related to the use of the casting session itself

Negative value

An error occurred: see the LastError property for further error details or for a list of the possible error values.