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I've been having an issue with VLC on the following website:

http://www.tvctv.org/government-program ... ake-oswego

it seems that after copying the link and trying to open it with VLC 'Open Network' an error keeps happening, not sure what it is, I used a PC and I was able to play it with the windows media player, see the error below:

main debug: net: connecting to 208.71.205.11 port 1755
main debug: no fetch required for (null) (art currently (null))
main error: connection failed: Connection refused
access_mms error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
access_mms debug: waiting for connection…
main debug: net: connecting to 208.71.205.11 port 1755
main error: connection failed: Connection refused
access_mms error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
access_mms error: cannot connect to server
main debug: net: connecting to 208.71.205.11 port 80
main debug: connection succeeded (socket = 12)
access_mms error: error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
main debug: no access module matching "mms" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 4405.359 ms - Total 4405.359 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 4405.359 ms)
main debug: waitpipe: object killed
main error: open of `mms://208.71.205.11/TRMSVOD/7710-1LOCC112211.wmv' failed: (null)
main debug: thread ended
main debug: dead input
main debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1)
main debug: nothing to play
macosx debug: input has stopped, refreshing interface
main debug: TIMER input launching for 'mms://208.71.205.11/TRMSVOD/7710-1LOCC112211.wmv' : 4460.167 ms - Total 4460.167 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 4460.167 ms)


not sure what the issue is, I'd really appreciate if you guys could help me with this, do I need an older codec? or something?

all the best!

Logs shows you the problem...

thanks for the advise, but you could be more specific? - I'm trying to bring this to the city council so they could provide access to 'mac' computers, but I need to prove that there is not way on a mac os to play this type of videos.

The server (208.71.205.11) refuses VLC's connections, which is why it can't play the stream. So, it probably refuses VLC's identifier (which can be used to differentiate VLC from WMP, etc.)..

I had this problem and all was replace mms:// with rtsp:// and it worked fine.

I am however having other issues, but that's for another post

Thank you kindly for your reply, I tried the above but now, VLC gets stuck on the loading bar, not sure if its working or not, after hitting play also happens the same.