NPM's WebLog

Wednesday September 05, 2007

"podcasting" worked for audio, and itunes snarfed and played the previous file, now video...

this is the akamai-store of KTVU's broadcast, associated w/ this webpage:
http://www.ktvu.com/health/9274823/detail.html

http://mfile.akamai.com/12948/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2006/0524/9267695.300k.asx

Roller correctly identifies this as:
Type: video/x-ms-asf
???weblogEdit.enclosureLength???: 175
and itunes dutifully ignores it since it's not an apple-centric media format.

 Actually, the length of 175 above clued me in to what's really happening, which is another redirect to an "mms://" mediatype which is microsoft centric and ignored by itunes:

gnulem-42-~> wget http://mfile.akamai.com/12948/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2006/0524/9267695.300k.asx
--17:32:15--  http://mfile.akamai.com/12948/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2006/0524/9267695.300k.asx
           => `9267695.300k.asx'
Resolving mfile.akamai.com... 157.238.197.9, 157.238.197.66
Connecting to mfile.akamai.com|157.238.197.9|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 175 [video/x-ms-asf]

100%[======================================================================>] 175           --.--K/s             

17:32:16 (22.98 MB/s) - `9267695.300k.asx' saved [175/175]

gnulem-43-~> ty 9267695.300k.asx
<ASX VERSION="3.0">
 <ENTRY>
  <REF HREF="mms://a545.v129488.c12948.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/545/12948/v0001/vod.ibsys.com/2006/0524/9267695.300
k.wmv" />
 </ENTRY>
</ASX>

The interesting thing is that when the RSS feed of this blog  is fed to my tribe account blog, you see a link
to the ASX file, which when clicked on in the browser, redirects to mms:// in media-player.
(if you're on windows from user's perspective, this "does the right thing", independent of Steve Jobs predilections to want to have apple create it's own incompatible media types, and refuse to support preexisting competitive offerings from windows-land... and screw the mac anyways... bunch of effete turtelnetck wearing fucks anyways... i'll take linux and all the zillions of free, clashing-look-and-feel apps done on a myriad of incompatible hack toolkits that are desgigned to suck in whatever format data they can find, as long as it's free...)