Viewing a Meeting Recording

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To use the Live Meeting service API to let a user view a meeting recording, the first step is retrieving the URL to the recording by sending a GetURL Message. The following is an example of GetURLRequest Element.

<PlaceWareConfCenter authUser="apiuser" authPassword="Pa$$w0rd"> 
  <GetURLRequest>
    <StringQuery fieldName="name" operator="=" value="N8379J"/>
    <OptionList>
      <StringOption name="recViewerCompany" value="Contoso"/>
      <StringOption name="recViewerName" value="john"/>
      <StringOption name="recViewerEmail" value="john@contoso.com"/>
      <EnumerationOption name="resourceType" value="WindowsMediaMovieRecording">
        <String>ESS</String>
        <String>PWP</String>
        <String>WindowsMediaMovieRecording</String>
        <String>WindowsMediaMovieRecordingDownload</String>
        <String>HighFidelityPresentation</String>
        <String>BasicRecording</String>
      </EnumerationOption>
    </OptionList>
  </GetURLRequest>
</PlaceWareConfCenter>

If the request is processed successfully, a GetURLReply Element element containing the requested URL is returned from the conference center. The following is an example of such a response. If the recording is not an ACL-protected recording, the URL value from the url attribute can be used without modification.

<PlaceWareConfCenter>
    <GetURLReply url="https://www120.livemeeting.com/cc/_XML/contoso/view?id=N8379J&amp;fmt=lmm&amp;pw="></GetURLReply>
</PlaceWareConfCenter>

If the meeting recording is an ACL-protected recording, you can avoid being directed to a logon page by making a createTicket message request. The CreateTicketMessage request results in a createTicketReply containing an authentication ticket that you must append to the end of the URL provided by the getURLReplyElement message. Non ACL-protected recordings do not require this step.

The updated URL for the ACL-protected recording is as follows.

"https://www120.livemeeting.com/cc/_XML/contoso/view?id=N8379J&fmt=lmm&pw=&ticket=69474hdesf3"

The returned URL can then be plugged into Microsoft Windows Media Player. The following code snippet shows how.

Importing WMPLib; // the dll is %windir%\system32\wmpl.dll
WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer player = null;

public void ViewResource(string url)
{
      player = new WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer();
      player.openPlayer(url);
}

See Also

Concepts

Using the Live Meeting service API