web multimedia procols.

[Robin Laing]

Hello,

Today I tried to access an online tutorial for a product that we are 
using.  I found that I could not access the multimedia files or 
download them as expected.

In Mozilla I kept getting and error about an unrecognized protocol.

The link was similar to this.

   mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv

The protocol error was related to the mss://

I have searched for any information on this protocol with no success 
and I need to find out if this is one of those strange MS only things. 
  I think it has to do with streaming the video or data but not sure.


-- 
Robin Laing

[John Mahowald]

On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt; wrote:
>  
>  The link was similar to this.
>  
>     mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv
>   
Try opening the link in a video player like totem.

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote:
>  On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt; wrote:
>  > The link was similar to this.
>  >
>  >    mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv
>
>  Try opening the link in a video player like totem. 
That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media codecs. Try the 
mplayer site for more info on how to get that working
-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA

[Oliver Leitner]

some mms:// files dont let you download them, thats the policy of some
mm content providers...

however, if downloading is allowed, id try to stream it into a file,
either by mencoder, ffmpeg or by xmms, or which other clients do
support that tech...

On 6/1/05, Claude Jones <claude_jones(a)levitjames.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote:
>  > On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt; wrote:
>  > > The link was similar to this.
>  > >
>  > >    mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv
>  >
>  > Try opening the link in a video player like totem.
>  
>  That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media codecs. Try the
>  mplayer site for more info on how to get that working
>  --
>  Claude Jones
>  Bluemont, VA, USA
>  
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Oliver Leitner
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[Robin Laing]

Claude Jones wrote:
>  On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote:
>  
> >On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt; wrote:
> >
> >>The link was similar to this.
> >>
> >>   mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv
> >
> >Try opening the link in a video player like totem.
>  
>  
>  That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media codecs. Try the 
>  mplayer site for more info on how to get that working 
First, honest mistake, not all Robins are girls.  My wife would be in 
for a shock.  :)  Of course I know a few and I still get mail 
addressed to Ms. Mrs. etc.

I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer by using 
the url.  It didn't want to work.  I will play with it some more.

I would like to have them open with either mplayer plugin or something 
within mozilla.  I was looking for the mime type to do this as well. 
It would be easier as these are part of a bigger package and the links 
are provided as part of the lesson.

I may have dones something wrong as it was close to the end of the 
working day.

I will give the various tools a try with the URL as I have some time 
today.

I did take the time to email the providers of the packages and 
complain as one of the software packages that I am trying to learn is 
Linux based.

-- 
Robin Laing

[Robin Laing]

Robin Laing wrote:

>  I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer by
> using 
>  the url.  It didn't want to work.  I will play with it some more.
>  
>  I would like to have them open with either mplayer plugin or something 
>  within mozilla.  I was looking for the mime type to do this as well. It 
>  would be easier as these are part of a bigger package and the links are 
>  provided as part of the lesson.
>  
>  I may have dones something wrong as it was close to the end of the 
>  working day.
>  
>  I will give the various tools a try with the URL as I have some time today.
>  
>  I did take the time to email the providers of the packages and complain 
>  as one of the software packages that I am trying to learn is Linux based.
>   
Well I tried videolan client, xine and mplayer but none would work.  I 
didn't get any messages from any of the links.

  mplayer mms://trog.ni.com/ni/webevents/lv/lv_datastorage_fast.wmv
  xine mms://trog.ni.com/ni/webevents/lv/lv_datastorage_fast.wmv

Now I don't know if I have an issue with firewalls or serverside 
restrictions.  At least xine gave me a message that xine failed to 
open the mrl.

More testing.

-- 
Robin Laing

[Claude Jones]

Robin Laing wrote:
| Claude Jones wrote:
|| On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote:
|| 
||| On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt; wrote:
||| 
|||| The link was similar to this.
|||| 
||||   mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv
||| 
||| Try opening the link in a video player like totem.
|| 
|| 
|| That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media
|| codecs. Try the mplayer site for more info on how to get that
|| working 
| 
| First, honest mistake, not all Robins are girls.  My wife would
| be in for a shock.  :)  Of course I know a few and I still get
| mail addressed to Ms. Mrs. etc.
| .......snip
| I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer
| by using the url.  It didn't want to work.  I will play with it
| some more. 
| --
| Robin Laing

Sorry bout that, Robin - I've had indifferent success with mplayer
and the codecs, but I have gotten them to work. The results can be
a bit frustrating because they don't always work - suppose it's
version dependent or something. I've always done it in conjunction
with Kaffeine, but that's not the only way, according to what I've
read. 

Claude Jones
Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
Leesburg, VA, USA

[Robin Laing]

Claude Jones wrote:
>  Robin Laing wrote:
>  | Claude Jones wrote:
>  || On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote:
>  || 
>  ||| On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt; wrote:
>  ||| 
>  |||| The link was similar to this.
>  |||| 
>  ||||   mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv
>  ||| 
>  ||| Try opening the link in a video player like totem.
>  || 
>  || 
>  || That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media
>  || codecs. Try the mplayer site for more info on how to get that
>  || working 
>  | 
>  | First, honest mistake, not all Robins are girls.  My wife would
>  | be in for a shock.  :)  Of course I know a few and I still get
>  | mail addressed to Ms. Mrs. etc.
>  | .......snip
>  | I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer
>  | by using the url.  It didn't want to work.  I will play with it
>  | some more. 
>  | --
>  | Robin Laing
>  
>  Sorry bout that, Robin - I've had indifferent success with mplayer
>  and the codecs, but I have gotten them to work. The results can be
>  a bit frustrating because they don't always work - suppose it's
>  version dependent or something. I've always done it in conjunction
>  with Kaffeine, but that's not the only way, according to what I've
>  read. 
>  
>  Claude Jones
>  Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
>  Leesburg, VA, USA
>  
>   
I work with video at home and work and have mostly great success with 
mplayer.  The only issue I have had is with damaged files that won't 
play.  The files will in many cases play in xine though.

I am going to try to with a (yuck) windows machine to see if there is 
a firewall issue on the corporate network or server side restrictions.

-- 
Robin Laing

[Bart Couvreur]

On 6/2/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt; wrote:
>  Claude Jones wrote:
>  > Robin Laing wrote:
>  > | Claude Jones wrote:
>  > || On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote:
>  > ||
>  > ||| On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt; wrote:
>  > |||
>  > |||| The link was similar to this.
>  > ||||
>  > ||||   mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv
>  > |||
>  > ||| Try opening the link in a video player like totem.
>  > ||
>  > ||
>  > || That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media
>  > || codecs. Try the mplayer site for more info on how to get that
>  > || working
>  > |
>  > | First, honest mistake, not all Robins are girls.  My wife would
>  > | be in for a shock.  :)  Of course I know a few and I still get
>  > | mail addressed to Ms. Mrs. etc.
>  > | .......snip
>  > | I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer
>  > | by using the url.  It didn't want to work.  I will play with it
>  > | some more.
>  > | --
>  > | Robin Laing
>  >
>  > Sorry bout that, Robin - I've had indifferent success with mplayer
>  > and the codecs, but I have gotten them to work. The results can be
>  > a bit frustrating because they don't always work - suppose it's
>  > version dependent or something. I've always done it in conjunction
>  > with Kaffeine, but that's not the only way, according to what I've
>  > read.
>  >
>  > Claude Jones
>  > Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
>  > Leesburg, VA, USA
>  >
>  >
>  
>  I work with video at home and work and have mostly great success with
>  mplayer.  The only issue I have had is with damaged files that won't
>  play.  The files will in many cases play in xine though.
>  
>  I am going to try to with a (yuck) windows machine to see if there is
>  a firewall issue on the corporate network or server side restrictions.
>  
>  --
>  Robin Laing
>  
>  -- 
You could always make a .asp file and open that with xine or mplayer
Contents would be something like:
<ASX Version="3">

<TITLE> a title  </Title>

<ENTRY>
    <REF
HREF="mms://trog.ni.com/ni/webevents/lv/lv_datastorage_fast.wmv"...
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

This usually works, I haven't tried it yet, but maybe it works

Bart