[BC] VLC Media Player?

[Cowboy]

On Wednesday 10 November 2010 10:43:46 am Blaine Thompson wrote:
> A terrestrial radio station has an online stream.  Their streaming URL
> starts with mms:// (that must stand for something?)

 Always, the letters ahead of the colon are the protocol, so your
 browser knows which handler to pass it off to.
 http the browser handles itself.
 ftp some browsers ( almost all except Microsoft, but maybe even 
 they finally caught on ) and the rest hand the stream to the ftp client,
 and so forth and so on.

 mms:// is the multi-media messaging service protocol, used primarily
 by mobile phones. Essentially an extension of sms protocol.


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Cowboy