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I would like to put a link on my website so that when someone click it, the Windows Media Player automatically opens and starts playing a live stream from my own computer. How can I do that?

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I would like to put a link on my website so that when someone click it, the Windows Media Player automatically opens and starts playing a live stream from my own computer. How can I do that?

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To stream the video you can use the free Microsoft Windows Media Encoder available here. You must make sure that your firewall and your router are configured to allow incoming traffic from the TCP port you chose in Windows Media Encoder and possibly have it forwarded to your PC. Now you need to create a small text file that you will place on your website. You will use your dynamic host name to point to your PC. Here is an example: Replace mywebtv.dyndns.org with your own dynamic DNS host name. Replace 8085 with the TCP port you chose in the Windows Media Encoder. Save this file to mystream.wvx for example. Upload this mystream.wvx file to your website and create a link in one of your pages, e.g.:

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To stream the video you can use the free Microsoft Windows Media Encoder available here. You must make sure that your firewall and your router are configured to allow incoming traffic from the TCP port you chose in Windows Media Encoder and possibly have it forwarded to your PC. Now you need to create a small text file that you will place on your website. You will use your dynamic host name to point to your PC. Here is an example: Replace mywebtv.dyndns.org with your own dynamic DNS host name. Replace 8085 with the TCP port you chose in the Windows Media Encoder. Save this file to mystream.wvx for example.

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