Re: Accessing RealPlayer broadcasts from Broadcast.com
broadcast.com has mostly windows stuff? ironic ..i heard that
broadcast.com uses a few hundred linux boxes to host their content ! lol
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On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> I have Netscape Communicator 4.7 and RealPlayer 6.0.4.433 (Beta)
> installed on my potato system.
>
> I went to this page on Broadcast.com, to access a local radio
> station:
>
> http://www.broadcast.com/radio/Rock/WKLS/
>
> They have a button for a RealPlayer broadcast. I hit the button,
> at which point Netscape asked me to save a document called
> makeram.asp. I saved it, and it had these contents:
>
> pnm://raads.broadcast.com/ads/firstusa/visa2GW.ra
> pnm://209.0.225.168/wkls.ra
>
> The first URL is a Visa ad, and the second one is the broadcast I
> want. I can use RealPlayer's "Open Presentation..." command and
> enter the pnm://whateverblahblahblah, and it plays the thing.
>
> But, why doesn't Netscape just do the right thing? With some
> experimentation, it appears that when I click the button on the
> web page, Netscape eventually gets something of the form
> "http://somehost/makeram.asp?something";. Rather than passing the
> "makeram.asp?something" back to the server, Netscape wants to
> save it, thinking it to be an unhandled file type.
>
> Anyone have any ideas about how I can fix this?
>
> A somewhat related question: many of the things on Broadcast.com
> are available only in Windows Media Player formats. Is there a
> way to play these under Linux?
>
> - Kris
>
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