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From:
Edward A Nilges
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Date:
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 22:15:04 -0600
Subject:
(idm) Re: RealAudio
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<2.2.32.19970222041504.018b95a4@popmail.mcs.net>
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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. > >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.) > >(Blechhhh, I wish RealAudio would go away until they support RTP instead of > inventing their own proprietary encoding schemes, blah blah blah ... ) > > - Greg > Writing and supporting Internet standards since 1986 > > >