mms:// how to question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:08:35PM -0500, Martin Duclos wrote:
> Hey all!
> Has anyone had experience saving streams from an mms server? I'm trying to 
> view some news articles but all I get is a asx.asp file which appears to be 
> xml with a mms:// link. I looked at various mms client and didn't find 
> anything that is currently maintained or useful. I tried opening the steam 
> with xmms and mplayer but that doesn't appear to work either. Would anyone 
> know of a tool to use to save the stream so I can watch it and possibly 
> save it?

Use mplayer and use the wave output option.

Then ogg or mp3 encode the wave afterwards.

Lennart Sorensen
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