I thought the pnm protocol was reserved for live broadcasts. The few times
I've used this trick with recordings, the .ram contained an http URL.
Ed
At 01:47 PM 2/21/97 -0800, you wrote:
quoted 19 lines No, that won't work, because the link you see points to a .ram file, or>> No, that won't work, because the link you see points to a .ram file, or
>> RealAudio Module, which is a miniscule text file that is downloaded all at
>> once and passed on to the RealAudio Player. This text file can be opened in
>> any text editor/viewer to reveal a URL pointing to a .ra file. This is the
>> file which contains the audio data. You can copy this URL into your
>> browser's address field to download the whole file all at once and then play
>> it from yer hard drive.
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>I don't know about your browser, but Netscape 3.01 doesn't grok "pnm:"
>variety URL's, last time I checked. (The RealAudio Player does.)
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>(Blechhhh, I wish RealAudio would go away until they support RTP instead of
> inventing their own proprietary encoding schemes, blah blah blah ... )
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> - Greg
> Writing and supporting Internet standards since 1986
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