The Perl Toolchain Summit needs more sponsors. If your company depends on Perl, please support this very important event.

NAME

Win32::WindowsMedia::BaseVariables - The control module for Windows Media

VERSION

Version 0.05

SYNOPSIS

    use Win32::WindowsMedia::BaseVariables;

FUNCTIONS

ServerType

    This function returns types and values for possible Windows Media Servers

    The possible values are

    Standard/Server
    Advanced/Enterprise

PublishingPointLimits

    This returns the Publishing Point limit variable names that can be used to set
the limits on the publishing point. Provided are the names of the internal references
used by Windows Media Services, and those displayed on the Windows Media Services management
console.

    Windows Media Services Management variables names

    LimitPlayerConnections
    LimitOutgoingDistributionBandwidth(kbps)
    LimitOutgoingDistributionConnections
    LimitBandwidthPerOutgoingDistributionStream(kbps)
    LimitAggregatePlayerBandwidth(kbps)
    LimitBandwidthPerStreamPerPlayer(kbps)
    LimitFastStartBandwidthPerPlayer(kbps)

    Windows Media Services internal variables names

    ConnectedPlayers
    OutgoingDistributionBandwidth
    OutgoingDistributionConnections
    PerOutgoingDistributionConnectionBandwidth
    PlayerBandwidth
    PerPlayerConnectionBandwidth
    PlayerCacheDeliveryRate*
    FECPacketSpan*
    PerPlayerRapidStartBandwidth

    *These variables are not show on the management console and should
    be changed/set with care.

    The returned hash contains a mapping of external/internal name to internal name.

PublishingPointGeneral

    This returns the Publihsing Point general variable names that can be used to set
certain properties of the stream.

    Windows Media Services Management variables names

    EnableFastCached
    EnableStreamSplitting
    StartPublishingPointWhenFirstClientConnects
    EnableBroadcastAutoStart
    EnableAdvancedFastStart

    Windows Media Services internal variables names

    AllowPlayerSideDiskCaching
    AllowStreamSplitting
    AllowClientToStartAndStop
    EnableStartVRootOnServiceStart
    AllowStartupProfile
    AllowClientsToConnect
    MonikerName
    Name
    Path
    Type
    Status
    EnableWrapperPath
    DistributionUserName
    CacheProxyExpiration
    IsDistributionPasswordSet
    AllowStreamSplitting
    AllowClientToStartAndStop
    BroadcastStatus
    UpTime
    BufferSetting

    The returned hash contains a mapping of external/internal name to internal name.

PlayerStatus

    This function returns the possible player conditions

    Disconnected
    Idle
    Open
    Streaming

UserAccessSettings

    This function returns the values and states available for users that are configured
for access control to the publishing point. 
 
    The possible states are

    ACCESSINIT
    ReadDeny
    WriteDeny
    CreateDeny
    AllDeny
    UNKNOWN
    ReadAllow
    WriteAllow
    CreateAllow
    AllAllow

ServerLogCycle

    This function returns the values and states for the automatic log file cycler. 

    The possible states are

    None
    Size
    Month
    Week
    Day
    Hour

PublishingPointType

    This function returns the values and types for a publishing point

    The possible states are

    OnDemand
    Broadcast
    CacheProxyOnDemand
    CacheProxyBroadcast

PublishingPointBroadCastStatus

    This function returns the values and states available for a publishing point

    The possible states are

    Stopped
    Started No Data
    Started
    Archiving
    Change In Progress

ActiveStreamType

    This function returns the values and types for a stream

    The possible states are

    Video
    Audio
    Other

DefaultAvailableSubSystems

    This function returns the names of some of the default sub systems within 
Windows Media Services.

    WMS IP Address Authorization
    WMS Anonymous User Authentication
    WMS Negotiate Authentication
    WMS Digest Authentication
    WMS Publishing Points ACL Authorization
    WMS Client Logging
    WMS Playlist Transform

    This is not a definitive list and it appears can not be pulled dynamically as
they operate at different levels within Windows Media Services.

CoreVariableNames

    This function returns the name of the variables at the top level of the server
instance. It also returns the variable type, so pointer to the next level down or
if it is directly read/writable. 

    AllowClientsToConnect
    Authenticators
    CacheProxy
    ControlProtocols
    CurrentCounters
    DataSources
    EventHandlers
    Limits
    FileDescriptions
    MediaParsers
    MonikerName
    Name
    PeakCounters
    PlaylistParsers
    Properties
    PublishingPoints
    TotalCounters
    UnicastDataSinks
    Players
    Status
    StartTime
    OutgoingDistributionConnections
    CPUUtilization
    StreamFilters
    Version
    DefaultPluginLoadType
    AvailableIPAddresses
    RootDirectories
    DiagnosticEvents
    EnableReverseProxyMode
    FileType
    DefaultPath
    OSProductType

AUTHOR

Andrew S. Kennedy, <shamrock at cpan.org>

BUGS

SUPPORT

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Win32-WindowsMedia-Provision

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Andrew S. Kennedy, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

3 POD Errors

The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:

Around line 591:

=cut found outside a pod block. Skipping to next block.

Around line 603:

'=item' outside of any '=over'

Around line 607:

You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'