Short: Download Microsoft Media streams from mms:// urls Author: Alexey Dokuchaev, Sigbjørn Skjæret, Christian Rosentreter Uploader: Christian Rosentreter Type: comm/tcp Version: 0.0.3 Architecture: ppc-morphos __introduction mmsclient allows you to download Internet streams using Microsoft's MMS protocol, e.g. CNN video and similar. Downloaded stream can be watched/listened with any software that understands Microsoft Media format, like Frogger or MPlayer. __finding mms:// style urls To use mmsclient, you need to dig out mms://-type urls out of web pages. But probably you did that already. :) These streams are originally designed to be watched using Microsoft's internet explorer. IBrowse, Voyager or AWeb can't handle mms://-type urls and you can't grab them with wget too. Bbut using this cool software, this streams is accessible from MorphOS too. :) Here's how to do it: - go to the page you want to watch streams from, e.g. CNN video - select the stream you want to watch (make sure it's a windows media stream) - select "show page source" or "show frame source" from the context menu - you'll either find a mms://-type url directly or you'll find a http:// link to an .ASX file. In the latter case use wget or the browser to download the .ASX file, you'll find the mms://-url in that file. e.g.: __downloading the streams with mmsclient Now you have found a stream you'd like to store on your harddrive? No Problem! to use mmsclient, simply type mmsclient mms://... don't let yourself confuse by the verbose output, once it's finished, you'll find the stream asf file in the current directory. If you don't like the output you could send them to >NIL:, but it's probably better to watch it. :) __credits The original program was hacked by Alexey Dokuchaev. Special thanks to CISC for the advanced URL handling and the ixemul kludging and to Golem for pointing us to this nice tool. ...but now have fun with downloading your favourite streams and enjoy them with Frogger or MPlayer! :) tokai - christian rosentreter -- http://www.taniquetil.de