Mastering MMS Streaming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Downloading WMV, MP4 & AVI Files

Overview

MMS is short for Microsoft Media Server and is designed for streaming on-demand and live digital media via UDP, TCP, etc to Windows Media Player or web browsers using Windows Media Player or Microsoft Silverlight plug-in. MMS only supports to stream limited file types, usually WMA, WMV, MP3. MMS is for file streaming, but there are still users who expect to download videos streamed via MMS. See some examples below:

• Hi, guys, I want to download a WMV file streamed via MMS protocol. VLC, Net Transport, etc can not help me with this need. Do you know how to download this WMV file?
• The videos streamed via MMS protocol buffer in Windows Media Player, so I want to download the video to MP4 for playing on iPhone. Is that possible? How to make it?

Actually downloading videos which are streaming from MMS protocol is possible and quite easy. You only need to download a MMS downloader named Allavsoft.

MMS Video Downloader - Allavsoft

• Download all videos streamed via MMS, no matter it is in WMV video format, or WMA, MP3 audio format.
• Download and convert MMS streamed WMV to MP4, AVI, FLV, MOV, AVI, WMA, MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, etc.
• Download any web video hosted on YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc to any video or audio format.
• If you have many videos streamed via MMS to download, add all these video URLs to Allavsoft and Allavsoft will batch download all these videos at one time.
• You can pause and resume the video downloading at any time.
• Support to set the computer to power off or shut down after all downloading work is done.

How to Use Allavsoft to Download MMS Streamed Videos ?

The following guide can help to download any video streamed via MMS Protocol to WMV, MP4, AVI, MP3, WMA etc

Make Preparation: Free download MMS Video Downloader

Free download the professional MMS Video Downloader - Allavsoft (for Windows , for Mac ) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import MMS video URL

Find your MMS video URL. Copy and paste this URL to Allavsoft. Also support to drag and drop this MMS video URL to Allavsoft.

Step 2 Set final output format (Optional)

Automatically you will get the MMS original video format as your output format. But you can also choose MP4, FLV, AVI, MOV, etc as the output format for playing on iPhone, iPad, Android, PSP, etc by clicking “Automatically Convert to” button.

Step 3 Start to download MMS video to WMV or MP4

Click “Download” button to complete downloading WMV, MP4, or other format from MMS Protocol.

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