what plugin is required to watch this link

[Alan Pope]

On 14 March 2011 15:29, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed ubuntu a few months back I do not remember what I did that time.
>

Easiest thing to do is open the source for the html page and look for
the embed url.

vlc can open the stream if you specify the url
mms://nhk-world.gekimedia.net/nhkw-highm

mplayer can too. I was able to dump the video out:-

alan at mrevo:~$ mplayer -dumpstream mms://nhk-world.gekimedia.net/nhkw-highm
MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
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://nhk-world.gekimedia.net/nhkw-highm.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://nhk-world.gekimedia.net/nhkw-highm
Resolving nhk-world.gekimedia.net for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: nhk-world.gekimedia.net
Resolving nhk-world.gekimedia.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server nhk-world.gekimedia.net[198.107.142.52]: 1755...
Connected
unknown object
file object, packet length = 1444 (1444)
unknown object
stream object, stream ID: 1
stream object, stream ID: 2
unknown object
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 1444
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Stream not seekable!


I left that running for a bit and ended up with this file:-

alan at mrevo:~$ ls -l stream.dump
-rw-r--r--  1 alan alan 2.4M 2011-03-14 15:35 stream.dump
alan at mrevo:~$ file stream.dump
stream.dump: Microsoft ASF

So that works.

Al.