GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 611105
MMS vs RTSP problem
Last modified: 2013-02-06 12:31:59 UTC
There seems to be a bug on how Totem parses MMS:// protocol handlers. I am using UPC Live TV from Poland (live television broadcasted using MMS protocol, available only to PL UPC ISP users). Totem takes ~15 minutes to connect to the stream. When looking at the page source, I see mms:// link to the stream. I've tried to connect with totem to this stream and I see some connection refused messages. However, if I replace the mms:// header with rtsp://, the stream opens successfully and works great. It seems that GStreaner tries to connect to this stream using mms protocol and waits a long time before it tries to use RTSP. Windows Media Player takes ~15 seconds to start playing the stream. Maybe if MMS is unavailable GStreamer should try RTSP first and then wait for timeout for mms?
Likely one of the many problems with mms(src), moving to -bad. Maybe totem (or whatever higher level) should try rtsp first, and then only mms, for some mms:// URL, which may very well be WMP approach nowadays.
I have the opposite problem, if I try to play mms://24.248.196.168:1038 it won't play when I go back and check it has changed it to rtsp://24.248.196.168:1038
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 578475 ***