switching the rtsp to mms worked for some time, but I opened the stream in vlc before closing my browser which had the stream playing as well on mute. Seems I just got lucky, and my browser was merely providing the authentication. Anyways: long story short --> Closing the browser and later closing vlc and then re-opening later, I was no longer able to stream. Seems as though some extra authentication is being passed back and forth, hopefully a way to fool the server can be found -.-