Playing .asx video files (via mms stream)

[Tez]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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
I need to use mms streams too, but the only app I found that handles mms
url's is mimms (universe)
This records the stream to a file, although you could do something
slightly complicated
to get it to play the stream live(ish), because it won't write to
stdout, I get mimms to write to a named pipe and play that.

It's the only way I've found to play mms anyway:
mkfifo outfile.asx
mimms mms://news.walla.co.il/srteam -o outfile.asx &

Then open outfile.asx in your media player.

Tez