<div dir="ltr">I've took a look at wireshark in windows, there were two problems:<div><br></div><div>1) The referrer field is sent from WMP. I don't think it's being send from linux. I'm pretty sure that there's some settings in the streaming server that restricts streaming to people with the right referrer only.</div>
<div> </div><div>2) The protocol itself is not the standard MMS protocol. mplayer tries to use some kind of MMS handshake, while WMP is sending RTSP commands. I don't understand it, it seems to me that the MMS protocol is a propriety replacement to RTSP.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If there's a video expert in the crowd, I can send him the pcap, I'll be glad for some help.</div><div><br></div><div>However I believe that convincing mplayer to play the stream should not be that hard. All the information should be availible once you login, and I can write a script that given a video page at <a href="http://video.tau.ac.il">video.tau.ac.il</a> gives the correct command line parameters to convince mplayer to send it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(BTW my friend will contact the helpdesk as soon as he'll finish some more urgent matters, I'll report here what did we achieve).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Boris shtrasman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:borissh1983@gmail.com">borissh1983@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Elazar Leibovich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elazarl@gmail.com" target="_blank">elazarl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>2010/7/21 Elazar Leibovich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elazarl@gmail.com" target="_blank">elazarl@gmail.com</a>></span><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Students of the Tel Aviv University have videos of some lectures availible online.<div><div></div><div><div>I'm trying to play these lectures in linux with a friend's computer.</div><div>
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".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Was anyone able to play this lectures on some linux supporting software?</div><div>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.</div>
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<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Btw have you tried using *-mozilla-plugin and setting the network.protocol-handler.app.mms in mozilla ? <br>you can manually override the settings for the player.</div></blockquote><div><br>
</div></div><div>I used the default Totem plugin that comes with Ubuntu, but I'll give it a go.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>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 ( <a href="http://myrtfm.blogspot.com/2010/05/re.html" target="_blank">http://myrtfm.blogspot.com/2010/05/re.html</a> (scroll to the end) ) <br>
<br>Most of the thread is about Legal stuff and not the normal tech stuff, have you tried manually mimicking the browser behavior ? <br clear="all"></div></div><div class="im"><br>-- <br>-- <br> -- Boris Shtrasman ------------<br>
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