Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

[Elazar Leibovich]

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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