Microsoft Media Services
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Microsoft's streaming server Microsoft Media Services (also called NetShow Services) uses the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol to transfer unicast data. MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP. If the Windows Media Player client cannot negotiate a reliable connection with MMS over UDP, it will attempt connection over TCP. If MMS fails, though less than ideal, a modified version of HTTP connection will be attempted over TCP that ensures connectivity.
The MMS default port is UDP/TCP 1755.
Microsoft deprecated the protocol in 2003 with the release of the Windows Media Services 9 Series, but continued to support the protocol for some time in the interests of backwards compatibility. Support for MMS was finally dropped in 2006 with the release of Windows Media Player 11.
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- Microsoft Media Services 9 Firewall Information
- Software that plays MMS content or allows capture to a harddisk such as MPlayer, VLC and MiMMS
- Streaming Download Project (SDP) – a free, but closed-source, implementation of the MMS protocol; reverse-engineered protocol documentation also freely available. It lets you download the videos available only for streaming forcing the use of TCP protocol (this can not be done with Windows Media Player).
- libmms A free, open source implementation of the MMS protocol.
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