imron Posted June 26, 2007 at 07:07 PM Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 at 07:07 PM Following on from a discussion in this thread. Here are the direct links to the interview: High-bandwidth version mms://nv.sina.com.cn/ent/2006/06/14298309.wmv mms://nv.sina.com.cn/ent/2006/06/14892608.wmv mms://nv.sina.com.cn/ent/2006/06/14487426.wmv Low bandwidth version. mms://nv.sina.com.cn/ent/2006/06/14595458.wmv mms://nv.sina.com.cn/ent/2006/06/14190155.wmv mms://nv.sina.com.cn/ent/2006/06/14784667.wmv It's mms and wmv so you might still have trouble on your Mac depending on what kind you've got, but at least it's a start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muyongshi Posted June 26, 2007 at 11:45 PM Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 at 11:45 PM You are a brilliant man. A pure genius. It's mms and wmv so you might still have trouble on your Mac depending on what kind you've got, but at least it's a start. No worries there...I got plugins to my quicktime pro up the wazzu. As well as WMV player itself and a billion other things. One of macs good points is all the freeware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 27, 2007 at 02:26 AM Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 at 02:26 AM No worries there...I got plugins to my quicktime pro up the wazzu. As well as WMV player itself and a billion other things.I don't suppose you'd care to elaborate on that a bit more? On my Macbook Pro none of the above listed streams will play using either Quicktime (with Flip4Mac installed), VLC, or MPlayer. Of course I can always boot to windows where they all work fine, however I'd rather not have to do that. Do you know of some other good streaming media player for OSX? (I'm not really satisfied with any of the ones I listed above). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandaxiongmao Posted June 27, 2007 at 04:45 AM Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 at 04:45 AM You might have some luck with Perian. http://perian.org/ It enables a lot of codecs in Quicktime Player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muyongshi Posted June 27, 2007 at 11:30 AM Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 at 11:30 AM I don't suppose you'd care to elaborate on that a bit more? On my Macbook Pro none of the above listed streams will play using either Quicktime (with Flip4Mac installed), VLC, or MPlayer. Of course I can always boot to windows where they all work fine, however I'd rather not have to do that. Do you know of some other good streaming media player for OSX? (I'm not really satisfied with any of the ones I listed above). Sorry Imron, I spoke out of term. I said that with assumption as they were wmv format as I was running out the door to go to class without trying. 出丑了. Sorry, I will try other things because unfortunately for me...I partitioned my harddrive for video capturing before I knew that you had to do boot camp and haven't had to time to reback-up everything bootcamp and then install windows, so I'm stuck for now. Going to try out that perian now. Will let you know. But if you find it let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muyongshi Posted June 29, 2007 at 12:28 AM Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 at 12:28 AM http://home.comcast.net/~msazone/garage/mmsStream_page/mmsStream.html I haven't got it to work yet but it looks promising. Long live macs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muyongshi Posted June 29, 2007 at 05:03 AM Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 at 05:03 AM Here's a link to the same interview that will work on Macs (works for me with both Quicktime+Flip4Mac or VLC). It seems existing streaming software on the Mac doesn't take into account redirect messages in the MMS protocol, hence it was failing to open the above listed files which were getting redirected. How did you find this imron? Is there some way we can use this on other mms wmv streams? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 29, 2007 at 05:35 PM Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 at 05:35 PM My background is in computer programming, and being fed up with what's currently available with mms streaming programs for the Mac, I decided to have a look at the mms protocol specification myself, write a small test app, and see what was causing the error. It turned out that everytime a connection was made to the original files, the mms server was sending a redirect message to a different location. So I checked with that new location, which redirected me again somewhere else. Finally that 3rd new location worked and so I posted it here for those interested. Anyway the test app is *very* basic and hacked up and not really suitable for release. Also, it only deals with the handshaking/connecting part of the protocol, not the actual downloading of streams, so it's probably not really going to be of any use to anyone. If I find the time I might consider writing a proper stream downloader for the Mac, as I've been meaning to find an interesting project to have a play with programming under OSX, and from my experience so far, OSX sure could use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muyongshi Posted June 30, 2007 at 01:04 AM Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 at 01:04 AM If you do get the time to do it I know there will be many appreciative people in the world. Especially me! :mrgreen: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted June 30, 2007 at 01:43 AM Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 at 01:43 AM If I find the time I might consider writing a proper stream downloader for the Mac Aren't there open-source programs that you can fix instead of writing from scratch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 30, 2007 at 03:48 AM Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 at 03:48 AM Yeah probably, but the two open source projects I know of with streaming (VLC and MPlayer) are far more than just a simple stream downloader, and also they are ports of applications from other operating systems with most of the work already done (plus from an aesthetic point of view, they don't really behave and feel like a native Mac application). Part of the purpose in me writing such a program would be to get familiar with programming under OSX and from that point of view writing something from scratch would be far more useful than just fixing up a small part of an existing application. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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