Ministry of Sound TV not working on Ubuntu

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Hi,

I have experienced another problem with Linux, though of course it may
be user error (quite likely).

I am trying to watch videos on:
http://www.ministryofsound.com/tv/

Item number 2 ( Clubbers Guide )
FireFox seems to refuse to play it.

I am using mPlayer plugin and it plays less than a second of audio,
stalls then plays another small amount then stalls and so on. No video
is displayed. I have a 2 meg connection so it should be fast enough to
see something.

I have tried removing mplayer and using both gxine plugin and vlc
plugin with no look, vlc plugin displays the words 'no picture' with
no audio either. gxine opens xine and refuses to play anything.

doing the usual view source trick I have found what I think is the
correct direct URL for the stream.
 http://www.ministryofsound.com/ministryofsound/players/tvStream.aspx?media=1
Opening this in its own window achieves the same intermittent audio.
VLC and Totem claim it either doesn't exist or they don't understand what it is.
Xine appears to try and play it and claims its finished without
playing anything at all.

Mplayer seems to now provide this:
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll,
/usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll

On the rare occasion it worked once, it played the end of a video and
stopped, it is supposed to play several video tracks I think.

When trying to fetch the file using wget it claims the file contains:
<asx version="3.0"><entry><ref href=""/></entry></asx>

and nothing else, yet mplayer plugin is dominantly trying to play
something, just not properly.

wget also lists the MIME as: video/x-ms-wax

I am using Ubuntu 6.06, with w32codecs installed.

Any help or ideas on debugging what it is doing would be appreciated.

Is there a list of websites and how to get rich content to work on Linux?
It seems that the only real problems with getting Linux to work
correctly are Hardware and media on websites.

I don't know why people can't use open standards (though the BBC told
me that it would cost them too much money to do that)

Thanks

Needing Help
- Andy