MMS streams

[Samuel Thurston, III]

do you have gstreamer0.8-mms installed?  It should work fine in totem
with that.

On 7/17/07, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/17/2007 08:54 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 17/07/07, Lee Tambiah <leetambiah at ossgeeks.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On 7/15/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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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> >>>
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> >>
> >> I have to say that the ideal solution is your university not using
> >> Windows Media for this! Why? Well they are an education facility,
> >> Students may use Linux (as you do) and Macs (alternative
> >> platforms). It would make more sense for the university to deploy a
> >> solution which runs on all Platforms, now OGG would be nice, but if
> >> they want the proprietry route why the heck didn't they go for
> >> realplayer.
> >>
> >
> > Actually, after talking to the IT department, I am convinced that MMS
> >  _is_ the right tool for the job. It is the only streaming media
> > format that allows fast forward, rewind, and fast/slow playback, all
> > as if the file were local. It really is amazing, and before I dug
> > into the details I wondered how it was all done. It is an M$
> > technology (and an abandoned technology! WMP 11 doesn't support it!),
> > but it is very, very good.
> >
> >> This is simular to the IBBC Player which is now being challenged by
> >> the open source community, I would also complain to the university
> >> too! Content is for all not just for Micorosft Windows Users.
> >> Microsoft will not make it work on other platforms as it is there
> >> way to create a lock in.
> >
> > You are 100% correct. Unfortunately, no open source tool currently
> > supports the features that MMS provides. If you can suggest something
> >  that supports FF, rewind, and fast/slow playback then I'll certainly
> >  suggest it. I'm serious.
> >
> >> You can get some Windows Media content to play using the VLC and
> >> MPlayer, but much of it fails . Its a pain in the ass but the real
> >> blame here is the University deploying a windows centric solution
> >> in the first place! Typical.......
> >
> > Well, if I download the whole 2 GB file to the drive I can play it in
> >  anything. However, that is not practical. Hence the need for
> > streaming.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> > http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/
> >
>
> Interesting. Perhaps your university can convince Novell & MS to do an
> opensource linux version.
> Seriously; even Realmedia have an opensource version of their software
> that works quite well. And given that Novell seems to be well in bed
> with MS given their patent agreement, I suspect that they will come out
> with something eventually.
>
>
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