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mimms is a program designed to allow you to download streams using
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the MMS protocol and save them to your computer, as opposed to
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watching them live. Similar functionality is available in full
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media player suites such as Xine, MPlayer, and VLC, but mimms is
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quick and easy to use and, for the time being, remains a useful
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program.
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Originally, mimms was forked directly from the last known version
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of mmsclient, which was for years unmaintained. mimms was started
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with the following goals:
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* Keep a working copy of "mmsclient" (now "mimms") well maintained
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* Fix lots of the bugs that were in mmsclient
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* Extend the functionality of the program in useful ways
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Since the 2.x series, mimms shares no code with mmsclient, and
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actually does all of it's MMS operations using libmms, a library
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based off of the xine-improved mmsclient code, which is designed
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to allow multiple implementations of MMS clients without requiring
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a fragmented code base. The mimms 3.x series is implemented entirely
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in python, and is freed from the details of the MMS protocol and
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architecture dependence, and can focus on usability.
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