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IWMSAdminMulticastSink Object (C#)

The IWMSAdminMulticastSink object is a data sink that you can use to send content to multicast clients. It is exposed by the WMS Multicast Data Sink plug-in.

The IWMSAdminMulticastSink object exposes the following properties.

Property

Description

DataProtocol

Specifies and retrieves the data protocol for the multicast.

DestinationMulticastIPAddress

Specifies and retrieves the IP address to which the multicast broadcast is sent.

DestinationMulticastPort

Specifies and retrieves the port number to which the multicast broadcast is sent.

LocalIPAddress

Specifies and retrieves the local IP address from which the multicast broadcast is sent.

LoggingURL

Specifies and retrieves the URL used to log messages during a multicast.

MaximumPacketSize

Not implemented in this release.

MulticastTtl

Specifies and retrieves the maximum number of intermediate router hops permitted for the multicast transmission.

UnicastRolloverURL

Specifies and retrieves the unicast URL used to redirect clients when a multicast session request fails.

UnicastRolloverURLOptions

Specifies and retrieves an enumeration value indicating whether the unicast rollover URL is a default or custom type.

Example

The following example illustrates how to retrieve an IWMSAdminMulticastSink object.

using Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

// Declare variables.
WMSServer Server;
IWMSBroadcastPublishingPoint BCPubPoint;
IWMSPlugin Plugin;
IWMSAdminMulticastSink AdminMulticastSink;

try {
    // Create a new WMSServer object.
    Server = new WMSServerClass();

    // Add a new broadcast publishing point.
    BCPubPoint = (IWMSBroadcastPublishingPoint)
                 Server.PublishingPoints.Add("NewPubPoint",
                                           WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_CATEGORY.
                                           WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_BROADCAST,
                                           "Push:*");

    // Retrieve the plug-in to be configured.
    Plugin = BCPubPoint.BroadcastDataSinks[
                             "WMS Multicast Data Writer"];

    // Retrieve the custom interface of the plug-in.
    AdminMulticastSink =
        (IWMSAdminMulticastSink)Plugin.CustomInterface;
}
catch (COMException comExc) {
    // TODO: Handle COM exceptions.
}
catch (Exception e) {
    // TODO: Handle exceptions.
}

See Also

Concepts

System Plug-ins (C#)