[Asteron]

hi all,
i'm writing a nice little script for cnn video and am able to extract from http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_freevideo.rss
video url's like
mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/business/2005/10/14/willis.pm.business.update.cnn.ws.wmv
mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/politics/2005/10/14/franken.rove.grand.jury.affl.ws.wmv

i can get this url to play on my pc but not in xbmc by

item = self.items[self.lstvideos.getselectedposition()]
print item.url
xbmc.player().play(item.url)

am i doing something stupid?
i tried both http:// and mms://. what format does the url have to be in to stream it?
does xbmc just not support streaming wmv's?
have i just wasted an hour and a half? thanks!

edit:

i am in fact stupid. that wmv file isnt actually a wmv file but a shortcut to a different wmv file. that makes no sense to me but whatever. wasted so much time on that too... mods feel free to delete this topic and save me the embarassment. thanks!