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Windows 2003 and NICs?

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Bill, could you setup windows media server and broadcast with windows media encoder from the 'headless server' ?
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I do a similar thing where I work. I have a Linux box with a radio card encoding a local radio station as a MP3 stream so some people in the building can listen to it. Of course it's not Windows with WMA, but like I said if their setup requires a video card and UI running they've got something majorly broken.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Bill, could you setup windows media server and broadcast with windows media encoder from the 'headless server' ?
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I do a similar thing where I work. I have a Linux box with a radio card encoding a local radio station as a MP3 stream so some people in the building can listen to it. Of course it's not Windows with WMA, but like I said if their setup requires a video card and UI running they've got something majorly broken.
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My point was that a video card might be necessery for video encoding broadcasting with windows media technology and the link i provided supports that notion. Seems like they have been considering windows media technology in the making of the OS. Thats why i asked bsobel about the headless server 😉, if it could work without a videocard when you want to broadcast windows media technology.

I think that Windows Media Server is the thing here, thats why in the 'default' setup of w2k3 a video card is required.
 
If I had cable I'd get a card with TV-in and see how it works, but I bet I could do it. Infact I can't imagine why a UI would be necessary, the video card outputs uncompressed video frames so you just pipe that through an encoder (mencoder is a great command line encoder) and to whatever daemon broadcasts the video.
 
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If I had cable I'd get a card with TV-in and see how it works, but I bet I could do it. Infact I can't imagine why a UI would be necessary, the video card outputs uncompressed video frames so you just pipe that through an encoder (mencoder is a great command line encoder) and to whatever daemon broadcasts the video.
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Give up bro. The closest most of us windows guys can come to a headless server is terminal services in admin mode. MS folks just don't get the concept usually.

I've heard w2k3 can actually run headless but it pretty much amounts to shutting down the gui (ie video card req'd to boot). Can anyone confirm/deny/elaborate this for me?
 
Bill, could you setup windows media server and broadcast with windows media encoder from the 'headless server' ?
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Your right that the encoder could (in theory) use parts of the video card as an oncard accelerator, however I don't know of any implementations that actually do this or any cards designed for that purpose either.

Bill


 
Give up bro. The closest most of us windows guys can come to a headless server is terminal services in admin mode. MS folks just don't get the concept usually.
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Well I saw mentioned in an article about 2k3 that MS is contemplating designing a CLI only server OS, so maybe the win32 crowd will get with the program eventually =)
 
Originally posted by: bsobel
Bill, could you setup windows media server and broadcast with windows media encoder from the 'headless server' ?
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Your right that the encoder could (in theory) use parts of the video card as an oncard accelerator, however I don't know of any implementations that actually do this or any cards designed for that purpose either.

Bill
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You see what im asking is, can you run the windows media encoder at all without having a videocard installed? (run it as a broadcasting server). I doubt that.

 
Originally posted by: bsobel
Bill, could you setup windows media server and broadcast with windows media encoder from the 'headless server' ?
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Your right that the encoder could (in theory) use parts of the video card as an oncard accelerator, however I don't know of any implementations that actually do this or any cards designed for that purpose either.

Bill
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You see what im asking is, can you run the windows media encoder software at all without having a videocard installed? (run it as a broadcasting server). I doubt that.
 
You see what im asking is, can you run the windows media encoder software at all without having a videocard installed? (run it as a broadcasting server). I doubt that.
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The encoding doesn't require a video card, it requires a video encoding card. Now, some video cards (now that I went and looked) can act as both (for example the Radeon series). But you can also use standalone encoding cards such as these.

Bill
 
Originally posted by: bsobel
You see what im asking is, can you run the windows media encoder software at all without having a videocard installed? (run it as a broadcasting server). I doubt that.
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The encoding doesn't require a video card, it requires a video encoding card. Now, some video cards (now that I went and looked) can act as both (for example the Radeon series). But you can also use standalone encoding cards such as these.

Bill
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So you are saying that a standalone encoder card can be used with windows media software without a video card (graphics display) in w2k3 server?
 
So you are saying that a standalone encoder card can be used with windows media software without a video card (graphics display) in w2k3 server?
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Yes, that should work fine. Now, I have not tested this configuration, but I can't find any evidence that video encoders are a special case of the headless deployment option that would refute this.

Bill


 
I have a ghetto headless server. I just unhook the monitor, keyboard and mouse after I boot it up! It's my P-166 running WinNT 4 workstation.
 
Originally posted by: bsobel
So you are saying that a standalone encoder card can be used with windows media software without a video card (graphics display) in w2k3 server?
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Yes, that should work fine. Now, I have not tested this configuration, but I can't find any evidence that video encoders are a special case of the headless deployment option that would refute this.

Bill
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Ahh ok. I know that a video 'encoder' card would be needed for sure, beacuse the windows media encoder will not be able to function otherwise. So some sort of card is needed anyway 😉

Today the line between capture cards and video cards is not so clear most agp video cards have digital video input also, not only ati's AIW radeon series which have a inbuilt TV tuner.
 
Originally posted by: toant103
Originally posted by: sirfergy
Does anyone know where to get NIC drivers for Windows 2003? By default it comes with none, and I have a Linksys LNE100TX Version 2.0 NIC which it doesn't detect.

Thanks!
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get a real nic.

3Com


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3Com??????
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You have offended my life! 😛
 
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