MMS streaming protocol
MMS is a proprietary protocol invented by Microsoft and used in their Microsoft Media Services product line. It is used for streaming video and audio over the Internet. MMS is popular due to the widespread availability of the Windows Media Player client, which is included in all Windows installations.
The proprietary nature of the protocol has not stopped it from being partly reverse engineered and supported by the most popular open source media players. Some important functions of the protocol are still not supported, though. Understanding those functions and adding support for them in free media players is the goal of this project.
Future
The MMS protocol is slowly being deprecated by Microsoft in favour of a variant of RTSP. It will however be supported for backwards-compability for a long time yet.