184268 - chimera does nothing with mms

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177161

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[S Woodside]

2002120604

This is the page for the "Segway Human Transporter" on amazon.com. There is a
link to mms://wm.amazon.usa.speedera.net/wm.amazon.usa/vid/General_use_high.wmv
on this page to "See it in action" under the photo. When I click on the link.
Nothing happens. Option-Click same. When I copy the link into a new window I get
"mss is not a registered protocol".

Comment 1

[saari (gone)]

So mms: is what exactly? A new microsoft protocol for launching .wmv files? I've
honestly never seen that until now

Comment 2

[saari (gone)]

->sdagley to figure out what MS has gone and done this time

Comment 3

[Stephane Moureau]

I think it's amazon that must change it's links.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/samples/internet/default.asp?url=/downloads/samples/internet/imedia/netshow/simpleasx/default.asp

http://www.playstream.com/support/linking/easylink.asp

Comment 4

[Steve Dagley]

I'm gonna agree with Stephane as IE on my systems doesn't handle the mms:
(Microsofy Media Stream?) link either.  I did try using the More Internet prefs
pane to add mms as a known protocol to be handled by the Windows Media Player
app but that didn't work either.  Going to make this into an evangelism bug.

Comment 5

[Steve Dagley]

Forgot to add that the lack of handling mms: links happens in Mozilla so it is
definitely not a Chimera bug.

Comment 6

[Bill Mason]

This is not really a Mozilla issue.  This is a known Microsoft bug.  Microsoft
has documented that the MMS protocol will have issues on the Mac platform, even
in IE/Mac.  Reference
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/macintosh/readme7.asp#mms

Workaround is per MS:
"To play content that uses the MMS protocol, start the Player, and on the File
menu, click Open URL, and then type the URL."

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177161 ***

Comment 7

[S Woodside]

I'm confused. Is MS supposed to fix this in their next Media Player for mac?

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg