MMS streams

[Dotan Cohen]

At my university we watch lectures in Windows Media Player via MMS
streams. The streams are over 2GB in size, so saving the entire stream
is not an option. I need a player that will play the stream, including
Fast Forward and Rewind functions. Is there a linux player that can do
that? I have had no luck with mplayer or vlc.

This is the output of Mplayer:
[dotancohen at localhost ~]$ mplayer
mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6,
Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv.
STREAM_ASF, URL:
mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video9.technion.ac.il
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 1755...
connection timeout
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video9.technion.ac.il
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 80...

It seems as though it cannot find the server, however Windows Media
Player 11 in VMWare loads and displays that video just fine. There is
no AU sniffing at the server, I checked that with the university's
computer department.

Dotan Cohen

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