MMS streams

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:34, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 01/03/07, replies-lists-a1z2-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
>
> <replies-lists-a1z2-redhat at listmail.innovate.net> wrote:
> > ------------ Original Message ------------
> >
> > > Date: Thursday, March 01, 2007 05:38:26 PM +0100
> > > From: Andras Simon <szajmi at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: MMS streams
> > >
> > > On 3/1/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Has anybody gotten MMS streams to play on FC6? I need to view video
> > >> lectures from my university, but I cannot play the streams. The test
> > >> page is here, if anybody wants to try it:
> > >> http://video.technion.ac.il/Setup/Tester/test-index.html
> > >
> > > Just a shot in the dark:
> > >
> > > Are you sure the machine hosting that video is up?
> > > $ mplayer rtsp://video9.technion.ac.il/test/algebra-491.wmv
> > > [...]
> > > Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
> > > Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 554...
> > >
> > > (mplayer sits here for a while, and eventually gives up).
> > >
> > > $ traceroute 132.68.1.27
> > > [...]
> > > 15  technion-gp0-cel-g.ilan.net.il (128.139.233.2)  140.018 ms
> > > 143.637 ms  148.724 ms
> > > 16  * * *
> > > 17 * * *
> > > and so on.
> > >
> > > Andras
> >
> > right -- with mms:// you should get a server response on a telnet to
> > port 1755, or port 80 (for fallback). that machine isn't responding to
> > either so would appear to either not be up or be firewalled.
> >
> > [as a general note, i have no problem using mplayer to stream mms://,
> > assuming that the server is properly configured.]
>
> The regular class videos are accessable only from within the
> university, but as I understand it the test cases should be accessable
> from outside. I've no no way to verify that, though. It wouldn't
> surprise me if the server was down. Again. :) That's what happens when
> they try to run a server on a Microsoft operating system :)
>
> On Sunday (a regular week day here) I'll give it another shot, using
> the methods described in the article linked by Nigel. Assuming that
> the server is operational by then. In the meantime, I'm still open for
> advice. Thanks!
>
> Dotan Cohen

Hi again. I've been googling again. I'm a bit stuck for live video streams as 
I'm on dialup, but a link I found on google suggests using "mmsrip", which is 
available from freshrpms. For FC6 (zod) see.
http://zod.freshrpms.net

If you read french the link I found on Google is.

http://www.llaumgui.com/post/Telecharger-un-stream-MMS-Microsoft-Media-Service

This is basically saying that the mms protocol doesn't allow you to download 
some videos using the wget command. To download these streams it is necessary 
to use the mms ripper utility, which you can get from freshrpms.

Just another suggestion, if it's any help.

I'm still Googling this problem. My french is nowhere near perfect, and 
Firefox insists on connecting me to Google.fr which doesn't help.

All the best.

Nigel.