Below is the message I posted November 29. Since that time two others from the Windows Media Talk mailing list have duplicated the problem. Wondering if there is any official comment.....
"When rendering a timeline as Windows Media (either a custom template or a prepackaged one), the resulting file plays fine locally or from a network-mounted drive on the server. If I attempt to stream the file via an MMS request from the server (running WMS4.1) it returns an error message complaining of a corrupted file. If I take the same file and run it through the command-line ASFchop utility, the resulting file is somewhat smaller and will stream just fine from the streaming server.
Anyone else see this behavior? I've submitted it to support, but thought I'd ask around here as well."
"When rendering a timeline as Windows Media (either a custom template or a prepackaged one), the resulting file plays fine locally or from a network-mounted drive on the server. If I attempt to stream the file via an MMS request from the server (running WMS4.1) it returns an error message complaining of a corrupted file. If I take the same file and run it through the command-line ASFchop utility, the resulting file is somewhat smaller and will stream just fine from the streaming server.
Anyone else see this behavior? I've submitted it to support, but thought I'd ask around here as well."