How do I play a video or show an image before a viewer sees my Windows Media stream?
This is possible to do and is totally dependent upon the content creator and software. The Osprey card simply acts as a source for the live stream while the software plays the clip before the stream. The first way of doing this is to create an ASX file (a client-side playlist that defines the order in which streams are streamed to Windows Media Player) which has the links to both the canned and live stream in it. When the user clicks the link at the website the ASX would play the canned file before the live stream. For ore information and example playlists are available at Microsoft/s website. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/advanced/help/ns_metafiles_bqsr.htm?id=4850 The second way is to create a welcome file which is streamed before the start time of the live event. To do this you must set up the encoder for multiple sources. During the wizard, select “Add Welcome, [etc] Files” when you reach the Video Option window. You can choose an ASF, AVI, BMP, MPG, or WMV for this. When
