Playing MMS video, where's the bug?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 18:25:59 UTC 2008


2008/6/30 Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net>:
> 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?????
>

No, a Microsoft proprietary protocol that has been discontinued:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Media_Services

So now, all the smart websites that went with the MS technology will
have to upgrade their services to be compatible with Vista. Yay MS!

Dotan Cohen

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