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17 September 2006
The locked-down guide to watching Meet The Press netcasts→[More:]
1. Go to Msn web site: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/
2. Click link to netcast: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10005066/
3. Click javascript link to show netcast frame
4. Open that frame as its own tab; this will show an unknown plugin if like me, for security reasons you don't use the windows media browser plugin.
5. Use web developer extension to display generated page.
6. Find actual asx link in generated page source: http://www.msnbc.com/modules/video/asx.aspx?v=mtp_netcast
7. Download that link. This is actually just container containing the real mms url.
8. Open the downloaded asx.aspx in any text editor.
9. Find the real mms url in it: mms://msnbc.wmod.llnwd.net/a275/e1/video/100/mtp_netcast.asf
10. Open Media Player Classic, go to file, open, paste the real link found in step 9.
11. Watch Meet The Press, Curse MSN's over-engineered website for making you go through 11 steps to watch.
ortho - some people (government types) might argue that you just totally hax0red that site, and you should go to jail forever. Of course, those people are stupid.