Link won't open in Firefox 3.0.1

I ran the URI with mplayer . Here is the result.

$ mplayer rtsp://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 530 @ 1.73GHz (Family: 6, Model: 22, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing rtsp://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf.
Resolving wms.tor.fastvibe.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wms.tor.fastvibe.com[216.7.223.13]: 554...
STREAM_LIVE555, URL: rtsp://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf
Stream not seekable!
 file format detected.
Failed to initiate "audio/X-ASF-PF" RTP subsession: RTP payload format unknown or not supported

Exiting... (End of file)

david@ubuntulaptop:~$ mplayer rtsp://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing rtsp://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf.
Resolving wms.tor.fastvibe.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wms.tor.fastvibe.com[216.7.223.11]: 554...
STREAM_LIVE555, URL: rtsp://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf
Stream not seekable!
 file format detected.
Failed to initiate "audio/X-ASF-PF" RTP subsession: RTP payload format unknown or not supported

Exiting... (End of file)
david@ubuntulaptop:~$
same for me I guess; what to do next?
thanks

audio.asf (END)

$ wget http://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf

$ cat audio.asf
[Reference]
Ref1=http://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf
Ref2=http://216.7.223.13:80/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf

$ mplayer -playlist audio.asf

MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 530 @ 1.73GHz (Family: 6, Model: 22, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing http://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf.
Resolving wms.tor.fastvibe.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wms.tor.fastvibe.com[216.7.223.12]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf
Resolving wms.tor.fastvibe.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wms.tor.fastvibe.com[216.7.223.11]: 80...
Resolving wms.tor.fastvibe.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wms.tor.fastvibe.com[216.7.223.13]: 80...
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Cache fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Clip info:
 name: Fastcast
 author: Powered by TELUS
 copyright: 2008
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: mad
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 20.0 kbit/5.67% (ratio: 2501->44100)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 22050Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 5.0 (05.0) of 3748.0 ( 1:02:28.0) 0.1% 0%
Exiting... (Quit)

Works!!!

Hi Arky
When I got to following your instructions properly The audio streamed properly, no hangs or timeouts for loading
Then i selected another from the list with a different date as you'll see and wget appeared to act properly
When I went $ cat audio.asf the files or links showed the old ones.
and then $ mplayer -playlist audio.asf played the original rather than the newly selected as below
I'm just about there I think

Thanks David

david@ubuntulaptop:~$ wget http://events.onlinebroadcasting.com/bmo_fastcast/080108/frameset.php
--16:45:19-- http://events.onlinebroadcasting.com/bmo_fastcast/080108/frameset.php
           => `frameset.php.2'
Resolving events.onlinebroadcasting.com... 216.7.221.94
Connecting to events.onlinebroadcasting.com|216.7.221.94|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 851 [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 851 --.--K/s

16:45:20 (67.56 MB/s) - `frameset.php.2' saved [851/851]

david@ubuntulaptop:~$ cat audio.asf
[Reference]
Ref1=http://wms.tor.fastvibe.com/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf
Ref2=http://216.7.223.12:80/pd/fastcast/091908/audio.asf
david@ubuntulaptop:~$

No need to use wget , Just copy the link and play it with 'mplayer -playlist ' or use firefox/mozilla mplayer media plugin

Pasting that link into Mplayer results in a hang. Pasting into VLC will work however. I've figured out that just changing the date in the address will also give the other listings as they become available unless the address changes

What will not open is a link from the stockbroker as below

javascript:bmoPopup('action?Page=Research/ToWebcastsPage&webcasts=http://events.onlinebroadcasting.com/bmo_fastcast/092608/frameset.php&webcaststitle=Don%20Coxe%20-%20V%20+%20T%20=%20Volatility%20+%20Terror%20(September%2026)',401,340)

What happens; is that I believe mplayer opens although it shows no name and a couple of photos as well as a small black box containing the text (no video). That's the end. It just sits there

Any more thoughts or info would be appreciated
Thanks
David

Further info
as to this last javascript link; They have just started playing right from the site by Mplayer I believe, although there is nothing to indicate which player is playing the stream.
I had an update come through a few days ago and I think that since then it's playing straightaway and now the only problem is that it stops occasionally and resumes or stops altogether
Thanks
David

If the stream does work in VLC, you could try installing mozilla-plugin-vlc and use the vlc plugin instead of the mplayer plugin. I hope it helps you!

Thanks Andreas Troschka, that solved my question.