Hey I apologize for such wide distribution. I was wondering, if some one could guide me on how to view a windows media server stream (rstp/.asf) that requires authentication as well as session state. I have necessary user name and password to view the stream in windows but I am not able to play this with MPlayer on Linux. I tried with some of the commands like 1. mplayer mms://username:password@url - didn't work. 2. downloaded rtsp live plugin compiled it and tried - it didn't work either. Any help on how to make this stream work on linux will be very much appreciated. Thx Sriram.