Playing .asx video files (via mms stream)

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 16:20:11 UTC 2006


I need to view a news video stream from news.walla.co.il that is
encoded in .asx format. I am able to download the file, but no media
player that I have installed (Kaffeine, Mplayer, VLC) is able to play
it. I do have these codecs:
dotancohen at ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/lib/win32
acelpdec.ax          ir50_32.dll                  README        vssh264core.dll
alf2cd.acm           ivvideo.dll                  rt32dcmp.dll  vssh264dec.dll
aslcodec_dshow.dll   jp2avi.dll                   sipr.so.6.0   vssh264.dll
atrac3.acm           LCMW2.dll                    tm20dec.ax    vsshdsd.dll
atrc.so.6.0          LCODCCMW2E.dll               tokf.so.6.0   vsslight.dll
AvidQTAVUICodec.qtx  lhacm.acm                    tokr.so.6.0   vsswlt.dll
BeHereiVideo.qtx     lsvxdec.dll                  tvqdec.dll    wma9dmod.dll
CLRVIDDC.DLL         m3jp2k32.dll                 VDODEC32.dll  wmadmod.dll
clrviddd.dll         mi-sc4.acm                   vdowave.drv   wmsdmod.dll
cook.so              msh261.drv                   vid_3ivX.xa   wmspdmod.dll
CtWbJpg.DLL          msms001.vwp                  ViVD2.dll     wmv9dmod.dll
DECVW_32.DLL         msscds32.ax                  vivog723.acm  wmvadvd.dll
drvc.so              nsrt2432.acm                 vmnc.dll      wmvdmod.dll
dspr.so.6.0          qpeg32.dll                   voxmsdec.ax   wnvwinx.dll
iac25_32.ax          qtmlClient.dll               vp4vfw.dll    wvc1dmod.dll
icmw_32.dll          QuickTimeEssentials.qtx      vp5vfw.dll
imc32.acm            QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx  vp6vfw.dll
ir41_32.dll          QuickTime.qts                vp7vfw.dll

Also, when I try to play the file in the browser, Totem opens and complains:
No URI handler implemented for "mms".

What can I do to play the file?

Thanks.

Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com




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