Hardware and software requirements.
Lists the necessities for hardware and software that must be met before you can install Windows Media Rights Manager.
File requirements.
Describes the necessary media and image files formats, outlines the encryption process, and discusses watermarking and pre-encoding options.
Installing Windows Media TM Rights Manager.
Describes the Windows Media Rights Manager setting up process.
Quick Start Guide.
Tells how to get a Windows Media Rights Manager Web site up and running fast.
Hardware and software requirements
Windows Media Rights Manager requires the subsequent hardware and software.
PC with Pentium class or later processor
5 MB of available hard-disk space
Microsoft® Windows NT® Server operating system version 4.0 with Service Pack 4 (SP4)
Note: We strongly advise that you run the Web server on an NTFS partition. When you install Windows Media Rights Manager on an NTFS partition, Access Control Lists (ACLs) are set up to limit access to Windows Media Packager, the tool you use to administer your Windows Media Rights Manager Web site. When you run Windows Media Packager, you log in using the same account as the one that was used in installation.
If you set up Windows Media Rights Manager on a FAT partition, anybody who can access the Web server computer can administer the Web site.
For more information about NTFS and FAT partitions, see the Windows NT credentials.
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack with Service Pack 1, which includes IIS 4.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 is preferred, or 4.01 with Service Pack 1
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
SQL Server Client Network Utility should use TCP/IP rather than Named Pipes.
You must have an SQL Server logon account that uses SQL Server authentication and has rights to create databases.
Microsoft Windows Media Tools 4.0
Microsoft Windows Media Player 6.2 or later
Optional
If you want to stream media items:
Microsoft Windows Media Services 4.0
If your SQL Server is on another computer than Windows Media Rights Manager:
Microsoft Data Access Components 2.0
File requirements
After you have installed Windows Media Rights Manager, you will make your Web site and encrypt and package your media items using Windows Media Packager. You will require to have at least one media file to start your Web site.
Requirements are as follows:
Media files should be in WAV, MP3, or pre-encoded ASF format.
Images should be in GIF, JPG, or BMP format.
A standard image, such as a company logo, is displayed in Windows Media Player when a media item is played. When the user clicks the standard image, the Web browser opens a corresponding URL, such as the company’s Web site.
You can also indicate an image to display, such as a song’s album cover, with items on the downloads page. Copy the images you wish to use into the \image directory in your Web site’s local root directory (for example, c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wm\content\images) before adding media items to your Web site.
You can also use third-party tools to arrange your media files before adding them to your Web site.
Watermarking media files. Watermarking is a procedure that lets you add information to your media files, such as an identification number, the copyright owner’s name, the date, etc., for tracking and fraud-detection purposes.
Pre-encoding media files. You can pre-encode your media files to add JPG image files to songs, to manage the encoding process, or to shorten the process of encrypting and packaging files. You can make use of Windows Media Author to pre-encode files (see Using Windows Media Encoder in Windows Media Tools Help). For more information about media files, see the part entitled “The Input File” in Windows Media Rights Manager Help.
Installing Windows Media Rights Manager
When you put in Windows Media Rights Manager, the Setup application performs the following tasks:
Installs Windows Media Rights Manager server and administration components to the directory you state.
Installs your Web site pages to the directory you state.
Requires the domain name for your Web site, such as www.mysite.com, where mysite is your domain name.
Create an SQL database for Windows Media Rights Manager data. You be required to provide the name of a database (for example, Music) and the name of your SQL Server. Also, you should provide the logon name and password of an SQL logon account; this account must use SQL Server authentication and have privileges to make databases.
After Windows Media Rights Manager Setup has finished, start Windows Media Packager to create your Web site: click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows Media, point to Rights Manager, and then click Windows Media Packager. If you installed Windows Media Packager on an NTFS file system partition, you should first log on using your Windows NT account.
Quick Start Guide
To get your Windows Media Rights Manager Web site up and running quickly, go after the following steps:
- Make certain you meet the installation requirements
You’ll require Windows NT Server 4.0 with the Option Pack, Internet Explorer, SQL Server 7, Windows Media Tools, and Windows Media Player. Many of these items can be downloaded correctly from the Microsoft Web site.
- Install Windows Media Rights Manager
You’ll need to supply a few pieces of information during setup:
The domain name for your Web site (this is the first part of the URL that people will type to access your particular Web site). But if you haven’t registered a domain name yet, don’t worry—you can do it afterward, and update the settings in Windows Media Rights Manager.
The name of your SQL Server, and the name of the database you’ll use to accumulate information about your media Web site (such as MyMusic).
The SQL account to access the database. You’ll need to specify a login name and password to access the database, which should be an SQL account, since Windows Media Rights Manager uses SQL validation. For example, if you use the SQL system account, the login would be sa, and the password would be anything you set for the account.
- After you run the Setup program, Windows Media Rights Manager creates HTML pages and a database for your media Web site, and installs Windows Media Packager (the application that you’ll use to supervise it all).
- Get a few songs or videos to put on your media Web site.
If you don’t have something ready yet, you can create a sample file quickly just to see how Windows Media Rights Manager works. For example, create a WAV file with a microphone and the Microsoft Sound Recorder (double-click Sndrec32.exe in your Windows directory), or for now, just use a WAV file that come with Windows.
- Start Windows Media Packager
Click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows Media, point to Rights Manager, and after that click Windows Media Packager.
Add a media item to your Web site.
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- Click the Add button, placed on the left side of the Content List.
- Set the essential properties for your media item:
In the Input filename and path box, type the location of the song or video you desire to add. For example, type C:\Windows\Media\Ding.wav.
In the Output filename box, type the name you would like to use for the resulting file, such as Sample. Windows Media Rights Manager automatically uses the accurate extension.
In the Title box, type a name for the song, such as Sample Song.
Agree to the rest of the default settings for now; click the Save button on the left side of the window.
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- The item you presently added is now displayed in the Content List.
- Check your Web site.
Unwrap your Web browser to the downloads page of your site. Either 1) click the Rights Manager Web site link, which is situated above the Content List tab, or 2) on the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Windows Media, point to Rights Manager, and after that click Your Web Site.
The media piece you added appears as a link; click it to download the encrypted media piece to your hard drive (for example, save it to your desktop for easy access).
- Check the license acquisition process.
Find the file you just saved, and then double-click it to play it. As you don’t have a license yet, your Web browser will display the registration page. Enter your e-mail address, and after that fill out the other registration information. When you’re finished, the Web browser displays a link to the licensed media item—clicks the link to play the piece
- View the information for your site.
Go reverse to Windows Media Packager and click the Statistics tab. The first tab under Statistics is Site Statistics, showing you common information about the traffic on your Web site. The statistics for your Web site show that you have one media item vacant for download, one person has registered on your Web site, one item has been downloaded, and one license has been issued.
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