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When setting up a streaming media server, especially in applications where
you will be using "push" to connect to the server you invariably have
to run this service on port 80. This becomes a problem immediately if you
want to run another service on the same server that uses port 80, like..well IIS
and all web
http services.
If you intend to broadcast over the Internet you at that point need a separate server for streaming
media. You could run your web services on another
port; although the search engines and
some browsers look at this a security issue. You can do some trickery and
run your media services on Port 80-84 which could fool some media players some
of the time, but won't fool all of the firewalls every time.
Check your router and firewall settings carefully for your first
broadcast. You want to open all affected ports (or leave the streaming
server in DMZ with a firewall) and configure port-forwarding
for windows media services if using a standard router with mulitple local
IP's.
When streaming over the internet you could configure the http server control
protocol. You have to specify this properties in the server configuration, and
can choose another port than 80 if you want, but see cautions above...
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