'Totem could not play 'mms' Message.

[Robin Laing]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 12:14 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote:
> I have never succeeded in playing video clips from CNN.
> 
> The most recent error message has been
> 
> 	Totem could not play 'mms 
> 
> 	no URI handler implemented for 'mms'
> 
> Are such handlers available anywhere?
> 
> Previously I was getting messages that the sound system was already in
> use (it wasnt) and that totem needed a sound mixer.
> 
> I dont have the exact error message for that one, but any help there would
> be nice too,- Im sure that if I make it thru the above error, the old one will
> reappeaer.
> -- 
>                                         Reg.Clemens
>                                         reg at dwf.com
> 

FWIW, we cannot access mss: media through our network firewall.  I
signed up for a course only to find this out the hard way.  :(

I found the problem with mplayer's error messages.