web multimedia procols.

[Bart Couvreur]

On 6/2/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> > Robin Laing wrote:
> > | Claude Jones wrote:
> > || On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote:
> > ||
> > ||| On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> > |||
> > |||| The link was similar to this.
> > ||||
> > ||||   mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv
> > |||
> > ||| Try opening the link in a video player like totem.
> > ||
> > ||
> > || That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media
> > || codecs. Try the mplayer site for more info on how to get that
> > || working
> > |
> > | First, honest mistake, not all Robins are girls.  My wife would
> > | be in for a shock.  :)  Of course I know a few and I still get
> > | mail addressed to Ms. Mrs. etc.
> > | .......snip
> > | I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer
> > | by using the url.  It didn't want to work.  I will play with it
> > | some more.
> > | --
> > | Robin Laing
> >
> > Sorry bout that, Robin - I've had indifferent success with mplayer
> > and the codecs, but I have gotten them to work. The results can be
> > a bit frustrating because they don't always work - suppose it's
> > version dependent or something. I've always done it in conjunction
> > with Kaffeine, but that's not the only way, according to what I've
> > read.
> >
> > Claude Jones
> > Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
> > Leesburg, VA, USA
> >
> >
> 
> I work with video at home and work and have mostly great success with
> mplayer.  The only issue I have had is with damaged files that won't
> play.  The files will in many cases play in xine though.
> 
> I am going to try to with a (yuck) windows machine to see if there is
> a firewall issue on the corporate network or server side restrictions.
> 
> --
> Robin Laing
> 
> --

You could always make a .asp file and open that with xine or mplayer
Contents would be something like:
<ASX Version="3">

<TITLE> a title  </Title>

<ENTRY>
    <REF HREF="mms://trog.ni.com/ni/webevents/lv/lv_datastorage_fast.wmv"/>
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

This usually works, I haven't tried it yet, but maybe it works

Bart