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From:
Greg Earle
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Date:
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:47:34 -0800
Subject:
(idm) Re: RealAudio
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quoted 7 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