Media services Plug-ins

[Guest]

Hello,
I am new to Windows Media Services, but I do have some C++ under my belt and
OOP is no problem.
I want to host a video file(wmv) on the internet, but it is very big and I
can't afford to constantly stream it 24/7. In fact I can only the video a
certain number of times in one day. I looked through all the plug-ins and
came to the authorisation part and found no way to do this. This file will
be hosted on a shared server which may or may not have other people hosting
content.

If I write a server level plug-in, would this effect other people using the
server or will it I only recieve notice of a connection on my domain?

I guess my plan is to use Event Notification Plug-in to identify a
disconnection(which should tell me a sucessfull transfer has taken place)
record the event, then when I get a WMS_EVENT_BEGIN_USER_SESSION I want to
check if I have reached the transfer limit.

Is there any case where a disconnection event will not take place?

Do my variables reside in memory accessable to my other plug-ins, or are
they only local and disappear when the system exits the method?

Is there a better way to do this?

 

[Mike M.]

You might want to also post this in microsoft.public.windowsmedia.server.