Playing MMS video, where's the bug?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/30 Michael Leone <turgon at mike-leone.com>:
> Microsoft Media Server (MMS) is the name of Microsoft's proprietary
> network streaming protocol used to transfer unicast data in Windows
> Media Services (previously called NetShow Services). MMS can be
> transported via UDP or TCP. The MMS default port is UDP/TCP 1755.
>
> Microsoft deprecated MMS in favor of RTSP in 2003 with the release of
> the Windows Media Services 9 Series, but continued to support the MMS
> for some time in the interest of backwards compatibility. Support for
> the protocol was finally dropped in Windows Media Services 2008[1].
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Media_Services>
>
> MMS is also Multimedia Messaging Service, which is a multimedia
> version of a text message, apparently, so it's unclear which one this
> is.
>

It's the former. The latter is relevant only to GSM and pseudo-GSM
(CDMA/TDMA with a GPRS gateway) cellular telephones.

Dotan Cohen

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