Playing MMS video, where's the bug?

[Billie Walsh]

Knapp wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dotancohen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is there a bug filed in the [k]ubuntu bugtracker (launchpad) regarding
>     MMS video playback? I thought there would be one,  but I could not
>     find it and I don't want to post a dupe.
>
>     This video does not play in Firefox:
>     http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126500
>
>     However, I can copy the url and paste it into VLC to play the video,
>     so it is an issue of configuration. Should I file it?
>
>     Dotan Cohen
>
>
> Stupid question but did you click it? Then did you get sent to the 
> next web page for non windows browsers? Did you get the can't play mms 
> error?
>
>
> -- 
> Douglas E Knapp
>
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When I tried it I got a message that Firefox couldn't open it because
there was no program associated with "mms". A little Googling and I
found that "mms" is for Microsoft Media Server or some such nonsense.
Another Microsoft proprietary format?????

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