Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

[Boris shtrasman]

2010/7/21 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>

> 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.
>
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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.

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