title: Video streaming woes
body: <p>I'm working on a video streaming application, where compatibility has so far been limited to Windows and IE (though it seems to work well enough on Firefox as well)</p>
  
  <p>I have been tasked to get it to work on Macs, and in the future Unix as well, but I figure that if I get Macs to work, UNIX will follow. </p>
  
  <p>We're using a Windows Media Streaming Server, with an .asx playlist file containing the streaming media. The URLs may also contain a subtitle file, and it goes a little somethin' like this:</p>
  
  <p>mms://192.168.xx.xxx/video/movie99.wmv?SAMI=<a href="http://192.168.xx.yyy/subs/movie99.smi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://192.168.xx.yyy/subs/movie99.smi</a></p>
  
  <p>Now, I'm pretty lost when it comes to Mac OSX, but I managed to get the video working with Flip4Mac, which seems to be some kind of "Microsoft Kit" for Quicktime. I also got it to work with a VLC plugin in Firefox and Safari. However, I can't for the life of me get the subtitles to work. </p>
  
  <p>I'm willing to hear whatever solutions you can think of. Javascript magic? Install something on the mac? Use java web start to launch an app that runs a commandline argument starting vlc with the subtitle file? Hit me :)</p>
  
  <p>The only solution I don't want to hear is "Make a youtube" and stuff like that. Simple solutions where we don't have to rewrite all of our core functionality is appreciated :)</p>
  
  <p>Regards,
  Ace</p>