Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

[Elazar Leibovich]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Boris shtrasman <borissh1983 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 2010/7/21 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>
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>> 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".
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>> 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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I used the default Totem plugin that comes with Ubuntu, but I'll give it a
go.


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