Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> Thanks to all the wonderful advice cocerning LInux and Vmware, I was
> able to set up a Win3.1 virtual machine in Vmware and install Windows
> Media Player 3.0. As I sadly explained yesterday, TV 6 of Moscow has
> chosen to broadcast their LIVE domestic Russian broadcasts on WMP
> instead of our beloved RealPlayer. Well, it is a big event for us
> Russian scholars, students, faculty and translators.
>
> Configuring my modem as /dev/ttyS1, I was able to immediately connect to
> the Internet via Netscape 3.04 on Win3.1/Vmware.
>
> WMP 3.0 is dated July, 1999 and is meant to carry audio AND video
> streaming for asf and asx files. My problem is being able to get the URL
> in question.
>
> For instance, I can usually first connect to a radio or video station on
> RealPlayer and look at the status bar and find the URl address
> (pnm://... ram) or whatever. That way, if I know the URL, I can always
> type it in the Open Location box and connect that way. For instance, to
> listen to Radio Free Europe Live in Russian (24 hours a day), all you
> need to know is their URL, which you can get by going to their home page
> and then clicking on Live Broadcast. Their URL is:
> http://www.svoboda.org/realaudio/ru_live.ram.
>
> There must be such an address for TV 6 Moscow ending with asf (or asx).
>
> TV 6 Moscow's home page is:
>
> http://www.tv6.ru/
>
> May I ask one of your kind folks who have dual Linux/Windows boot and
> please, if you could, try to write down the URL for TV 6 of Moscow.
> Turn to their second page and you'll find "Live Broadcasting" at the top
> right of this page. Click on the TV6 icon and you should be able to
> connect to them with WMP on Win98.
>
> One very important question: what connection options do they offer: 28k,
> 56k, ISDN, broadband? Please let me know.
>
> This will give you the live broadcast URL. That's all I need. If WMP 3.0
> for Win3.1 can connect, I will be delighted as can be and eternally
> grateful to you.
>
> If this experiment fails, I may have no choice but to consider Win98 on
> VMware for Linux. I don't like the idea one bit. That's why I am making
> this desperate attempt to do it on Win3.1.
>
> Thanks so very much, folks.
>
> Benjamin
>
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I can't get it to give me anything I think is useful, but I got:
http://www.tv6.ru/RUSSIAN/WINDOWS/tv6.ram
Inside that file is:
rtsp://www.tv6.ru/encoder/tv6.rm
(I got this from the english side when I clicked live broadcast)
In Russian (can't read it, so just clicked things):
http://www.tv6.ru/TV6-Moscow(live).htm
This tried to run real player, but couldn't connect to anything and
didn't give me options to click on anything to pick a channel or url.
Maybe you can find a friend locally that will let you go to the site to
play around until you get the information you need?
