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Publishing Point Interfaces

A Windows Media server can support both on-demand and broadcast publishing points.

Broadcast publishing points are best suited for scenarios that are similar to television or radio programs. That is, the content is controlled by the server instead of the client, and all connected clients receive the same stream from the point at which they join the broadcast. A client cannot pause, fast forward, rewind, or skip. You can deliver content from a broadcast publishing point as either a unicast or multicast stream.

On-demand publishing points are best suited for scenarios in which the user must be able to start the stream at the beginning and pause, fast forward, or rewind. Pay-per-view is one example. Content streamed from an on-demand publishing point is always delivered as a unicast stream.

The server object model contains the following interfaces for creating and managing publishing points. Links to reference pages for these interfaces, listed by programming language, are provided in the See Also lists that follow the table.

Interface Description
IWMSAnnouncementStreamFormats Contains a collection of the names of the media files that make up a multicast broadcast.
IWMSBroadcastPublishingPoint Contains methods to configure and run a broadcast publishing point.
IWMSOnDemandPublishingPoint Contains methods to manage an on-demand publishing point.
IWMSPublishingPoint Contains methods to retrieve and manage the properties of a publishing point.
IWMSPublishingPoints Contains a collection of IWMSPublishingPoint interfaces.

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