Windows Media Encoder - network sources?

[pawl]

I need to capture mpeg transport streams coming over UDP multicasts, transcode them to WMV, and push them to a Windows Media Server as a live stream. Unfortunately it seems like WME can't handle network streams in any way, even from the SDK level. Is there a commercial product that can do this?

It seems like the only option to get something other than a local file is to write a video capture driver, so could I actually write a device driver that reads/decodes from the network and looks like a capture device to WME?

[andersi]

Perhaps the VBrick Capture Driver can do the trick? http://www.vbrick.net/capturedriver/

Else you will have to build a DirectShow graph to do this.

[pawl]

Thanks, it looks like that is the capture driver solution I was imagining, but it sounds like theirs is only for video on a VBrick(not too familiar with the product).

Anyway, digging a little deeper it looks like using the windows format SDK is the way to go.