How do I play this HBO video stream

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 17:56 +0100, dexter wrote:
> On Sun May 13 2007 17:00:13 Steven Stern wrote:
> > Mplayer plugin starts up, then Firefox disappears.
> >
> > Go to
> > http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/?ntrack_para1=leftnav_category0_show6, then
> > click on "Watch Overtime" on the left side of the page.
> >
> > $ rpm -qa |grep mplayer
> > mplayer-fonts-1.1-4.lvn6
> > mplayerplug-in-3.40-1.lvn6
> > mplayer-1.0-0.72.20070325svn.lvn6
> >
> > --
> >
> >    Steve
> 
> Boom wow that site is seriously window$ centric but I did it.
> the link points to http://www.hbo.com/scripts/video/videoplayer_event.html
> 
> grabbing this with wget and taking a peek at the source reveals 
> http://wms.stream.aol.com/turner/gl/hbo/billmaher/season3/b_maher_ot_05_11_wm_384.wmv
> you can watch this from the command line.


I have about 4 video pirating Firefox extension tools, and most find the
file for dnload. Amazing Media Browser is one of the better ones, so I
just dnload the file and watch it locally until I'm happily
content-satiated and then I erase it. Or not. :) Ric