> First and foremost I think that you don't understand my question. > I'll emphasize it again. > I'm NOT interested in a way to access the TAU videos without username > and password. > I AM interested in a way to access the TAU videos WITH my [1] > legitimate username and password, from a Linux system. Which means, in > the bottom line, using mplayer or VLC. > That is, the point about distributing the mms:// links is not valid > for my question. The mms:// shouldn't help you if you don't have > username and password for the videos site in the TAU. The mms links > should be password protected. I understood you quite fine. I wasn't referring to you in my replies, but to those who answered. > However, no authentication request prompted when I fed the link to vlc > or mplayer. Maybe they just don't support authenticated mms links > correctly. What probably happened is, there was no good way to > authenticate the mms:// links in the server, so they used a hacky way > which happens to work for WMP only. No. As I said, it will work from ANY browser, but it requires your player to be a browser plugin, and not a standalone player (that is the way it works at the moment). > It might be that the TAU want people to access their content > exclusively with WMP. I'm not sure if they can legally enforce that > (I'm pretty sure viewing copyrighted material with a player not > authorized by the rights owner is considered fair use, but maybe they > can say "hey, student! If you're accessing our videos in our website > you must use WMP, otherwise stay out", and it would be something like > HASAGAT GVUL to use that from linux). Oh please.
> About your second point. I was always disappointed when using the > official support channel for linux support. Usually the answer is "we > don't support linux". The linux support you get at Linux-IL, is > actually much better than the official channel. As I already said on the previous mail, your prejudice here is uncalled for. I really don't care what "usual" reply you get when you call X ISP or whomever. Use TAU HelpDesk. Have your friend open a ticket, the link is: h t t p : / / h e l p d e s k . t a u . a c . i l Have your friend login with his/her user/password, and help him/her fill in the request. best, -- Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: ar...@post.tau.ac.il PGP: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
