Watching video in Ubuntu

[Christian Stefanescu]

Could it be a campus-only restriction?

On Nov 14, 2007 3:57 PM, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:56:32 +0200
> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > At my university I must watch some video lectures. I am completely
> > unsuccessful in watching them in Totem, VLC, or Mplayer. Although the
> > videos are available only from within the university, the CS help page
> > lists these sites that use the exact same technology:
>
> > mms://128.139.216.150/academic
>
> Tried this one with mimms, which normally grabs mms URLS and downloads the
> content
>
>  $ mimms mms://128.139.216.150/academic
> <mms://128.139.216.150/academic>  =>  'academic'
> Connecting...Could not read packet header: Success
> libmms connection error
>
> Those are some seriously borked URLs...
>
> One of them I succeeded in getting with wget, and there was an asx file -
> supposedly - which looks like this:
>
> $ cat gm.asp\?ai\=385
> <asx version="3.0">
>                                <!-- GMX -->
>                                <title>CastUP: Unknown Error</title>
>                                <entry>
>                                        <title>Error: Unknown Error</title>
>                                    <author></author>
>                                        <ref href="http://" />
>                                </entry>
>                        </asx>
>
> Do you get the feeling someone doesn't want us to know?
>
> Peter
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