On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Elazar Leibovich <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Boris shtrasman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> 2010/7/21 Elazar Leibovich <[email protected]> >> >>> Students of the Tel Aviv University have videos of some lectures >>> availible online. >>> I'm trying to play these lectures in linux with a friend's computer. >>> The lectures are ment to be played by Windows Media Player plugin in the >>> browser, which is given a mms:// streaming address. Feeding this address to >>> mplayer resulted the server respond with "no such video stream". >>> >>> Was anyone able to play this lectures on some linux supporting software? >>> I suspected it works in the browser because of the authentication (you >>> must log in to view the lectures). But I don't understand, do the WMP plugin >>> access your cookies when it runs in the browser? I assumed it doesn't (it >>> works in chrome under windows, and I assumed the WMP plugin there won't know >>> anything about chrome's internals) therefor I assumed authentication won't >>> be an issue, but maybe I'm wrong about that. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >>> >> Btw have you tried using *-mozilla-plugin and setting the >> network.protocol-handler.app.mms in mozilla ? >> you can manually override the settings for the player. >> > > I used the default Totem plugin that comes with Ubuntu, but I'll give it a > go. > How did you get the stream ? I would recommend opening Wireshark on windows machine and making sure that the link you get is the correct one. Also take a look on the steps I used to make my mozilla work with a streaming web site ( http://myrtfm.blogspot.com/2010/05/re.html (scroll to the end) ) Most of the thread is about Legal stuff and not the normal tech stuff, have you tried manually mimicking the browser behavior ? -- -- -- Boris Shtrasman ------------ |Gnu/Linux Software developer | | IM : [email protected] | | URL : myrtfm.blogspot.com| _______________________________
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