Hey guys I have a problem
I was following this tut: http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/artic...6&seqNum=2 to try to stream a video live onto a website. The problem is I can see the video embedded on the website from my computer but not other computers. I have the port forwarded on the router but I am just wondering what way the URL shoulld be so that other people can see the video? Windows Media Encoder 9 gave me the url http://127.0.0.1:8080/ which is what I can view from my PC, I tried using http://www.whatismyip.com/ and tried the url MyIP:8080/ but that doesn't work.
What URL do I have to use so that other people can view the video? Or is there a different software or something that will work...
Cheers,
J.

J'adore le paissons Wrote:I tried using http://www.whatismyip.com/ and tried the url MyIP:8080/ but that doesn't work.

.. that means one of two things.

1) Its not forwarded properly - check with this tool: http://www.canyouseeme.org/
2) The source code/broadcast feed is purposely broadcasting to localhost (127.0.0.1) - and that needs to be changed.

you have set 8080 in your router to point to your computers ip address?  not 127.0.0.1 but the dhcp assigned or static address you have set needs to be in there.  Go to command prompt and type ipconfig and you can get your local ip address.  Once you have that, then you should be accessible from the ipaddress given by myipaddress.com

POSSIBLY your ISP is not allowing servers to run on the internet package you have so even if you have the proper port forwarding, your ISP is blocking it anyways....kind of unlikely, but not unheard of.

This is the port forwarding I have done:
Application  

           External Packet                        

Internal Host

Name                       IP Address

Protocol

Port

         IP Address

Port
videostream  

         ALL    

TCP/UDP  

8080  

192.168.1.3  

8080

but http://www.canyouseeme.org/ says Connection timed out.
It would also work if I could find a free windows media server host, right now I am using http://www.streamwebtown.com/index.php but as you can see the free part is not always online. If anyone can find a free windows media server host that would be great.

J'adore le paissons Wrote:This is the port forwarding I have done:
Application  

           External Packet                        

Internal Host

Name                       IP Address

Protocol

Port

         IP Address

Port
videostream  

         ALL    

TCP/UDP  

8080  

192.168.1.3  

8080

but http://www.canyouseeme.org/ says Connection timed out.

Do as SchmilK said, run "cmd" and type "ipconfig" and see what local IP address you get. Make sure it is 192.168.1.3

Yeah that is how I got that IP address sure...

Ok the firewall was blocking the post so now http://www.canyouseeme.org/  can successfully connect the port 8080 but I still can't get the video to show up wi myIP:8080/ .
Anyone got any suggestions now?

try putting mms://yourip:8080 in your browser

Nope no luck :S
anyone know of a free windows media server host? Probably isn't one though :(