MMS:// files whit password and user

[Derek Broughton]

Erik Blagoev wrote:

> Hi all.
> I'm trying to play a mms files and i play them with kaffeine and mplayer.
> The problem is that the website asks for user and password but the pop-up
> is not displayed on my screen in order to put them. I don't know what to
> do... Someone have idea?
> 
> PS: I'm new in this world of linux and i'm sorry if the question is
> resolved, but i couldn't find anything on i-net.

I don't know about getting either kaffeine or mplayer to prompt you for a
password, but a URL, in general, is "protocol://user:password@domain/path",
so try: "mms://yourname:yourpassword@..."
-- 
derek