Reimar D?ffinger [mailto:Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de]: > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:10:49AM -0700, Alun Jones wrote: > > Please let me know if there's anything I'm doing wrong, if this is a > > fundamental limit set at the server, or something else entirely. > > Something in-between. MMS is indeed designed to only produce data > in realtime, however there seem to be some tricks to convince it to > do it faster. However MPlayer does not use these tricks, and actually > I don't even know nay details how they work (I think something like > telling > the server that the client is still trying to buffer). It'd be interesting to know what the level of effort is in making these happen. Would this document help? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc251059.aspx Alun. ~~~~