gmms for Windows/Linux: an Open Source MMS-stream downloader
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This program has it's roots within the mmsclient program (see
http://www.geocities.com/majormms/).  Quite a lot of the sourcecode
out there has been used to implement the download stuff.
Unfortunately, the author of mmsclient is unknown so i cannot thank
him for his work.  If somebody knows the name and/or email of the
author, please let me know so i can thank the dude because he did a
great job and made things easier for me!


gmms works on both Windows and Linux.  It allows you to download
MMS-type media streams (which have an URL looking like
'mms://my.host.com/foo.bar').  You can simply download the streams by
entering the url, selecting a filename and pressing the 'START'
button.  The download can be stopped by pressing the 'STOP' button
(easy, isn't it? ;-)

Then open the media file using your favorite media player.

It should be mentioned that there are companies who have policy of not
allowing to download their streams... so whatever you are downloading
is at your own risk and i cannot be held responsible for it.  I wrote
this piece of software only to fresh up my knowledge of the C-language
and GTK+ programming and to learn socket programming.

This program is Free Software and complies with the GNU General Public
License.

These are some test streams i used while coding:

      mms://stream04.pandora.be/stubrubreed (continous)
      mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/encoderfranceinfo (continuous)
      mms://stream.tntech.edu/welcome1.asf (17 seconds)

And here are some useful links i used:

http://sdp.ppona.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/asfspec.aspx


Greetzzz,
Bart (Bart.Vandewoestyne AT pandora.be)
