play mms streams over the internet

[mIXpRo]

hii,
i have this problem a long time and i can't find a solution for it , i've searched a lot in sites forums ... , and now i'm here , hopefully i will find my answer .

i have windows and ubuntu 10.04 on laptop , and i'm student , there are a lectures that i would like to watch on my laptop , they are streamed with mms protocol (mms://xxxx/xxx/xxx.wmv), in windows this is no problem (windows media player) but in linux i've managed to get them work on vlc by changing the protocol in vlc's network stream tab to rtsp . but the problem is :
1) i can't speed up the playback for like 1.5x(i have to save time)
2) the time bar doesn't work : when playing the indicator of the time doesn't move
so at certain point at the lecture you won't know how much time have passed .

any idea's , not just for vlc in general .

thnx in advance .

[kados]

have you tried anything besides VLC? Give amarok a try, it does play streams, I use it all the time

sudo apt-get install amarok

[craigevil]

Rhythmbox should play mms streams, so should Totem, Exaile, and Amarok.

You can also use mplayer or the mms package.

mimms - mms (e.g. mms://) stream downloader

In Firefox I added this to my user.js so mms would play in mplayer

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mms", "/usr/bin/mplayer");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mms", true);

[mIXpRo]

how can i add this to firefox ?