Migrating from the Windows Media Station Control

The Windows Media Station control is an ActiveX control that is used to administer multicasting for Windows Media Services 4.1. This control, and the objects that can be accessed from it, are no longer available in the Windows Media Services 9 Series SDK.

The following table shows the functional equivalent of the Windows Media Station control and its objects in the Windows Media Services 9 Series SDK.

Version 4.1 object

9 Series equivalent

NSChannelMgr (Windows MediaStation control)

IWMSServer

Address

IWMSAdminMulticastSink

Channel

IWMSAdminMulticastSink, IWMSBroadcastPublishingPoint

Channels

IWMSPublishingPoints

ChannelFormat

src attribute in a SMIL-compliant playlist

ChannelFormats

No equivalent functionality

Client

IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnection, IWMSPlayer

Clients

IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnections, IWMSPlayers

HostAddresses

IWMSAdminMulticastSink

Stream

media element in a SMIL-compliant playlist

Streams

No equivalent functionality

StreamDescriptor

IWMSActiveMedia, IWMSActiveStream

StreamDescriptors

IWMSActiveStreams

See Also (General)