Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

[Boris shtrasman]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> I used the default Totem plugin that comes with Ubuntu, but I'll give it a
> go.
>

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
( http://myrtfm.blogspot.com/2010/05/re.html (scroll to the end) )

Most of the thread is about Legal stuff and not the normal tech stuff, have
you tried manually mimicking the browser behavior ?

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