How to upload videos to Windows Media Services 2008 - sharepoint

Long time lurker, first time asker-of-questions.
We have Sharepoint 2010 running for our company intranet, and we want the ability to stream videos locally. SP2010 is awful for this.
I'm looking towards Windows Media Services 2008, a free download/addon for Windows Server 2008.
I've Googled and Googled, but I just cannot find anything which answers this:
How do you actually upload the media to Windows Media Services 2008?
Our IT department looks after the servers (and this is further complicated by being half-managed by a third party company). I need to know whether I will be able to upload media to WMS2008 over our network, like with a URL we can go to and click up (finding the file on our computer), rather than having to do it on the actual server itself.
I know this will sound like a daft question, but I just can't find the answer. Help me Stackoverflow, you're my only hope.

I'm not sure if you have already found answer to this question, but I am also working on Windows Media Services(WMS) 2008 for streaming videos and found your question while googling.
I have happened to manage to publish a video using WMS and view it on a client machine.
I'll quickly summarize the it for you. Basically you need to put your video file on the server, and then create a publishing point in WMS (using wizard or advanced mode)and use the mms URL to view video using Windows media player.
You can refer this guide for configuring and streaming videos using WMS.
Please let me know if you need more details on this.
Hope this helps.

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