Re: lynx-dev sound playing problem

[Victor Schneider, Ph. D.]

>     * From: address@hidden
>     * Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 07:58:39 -0600 (MDT)
>In a recent note, A. R. Vener said:
>
>> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 08:18:44 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>> I have a realaudio player that plays the streaming
>> audio immediately as it is being received.  On the other
>> hand lynx apparently downloards all the data from a wave file
>> first and then calls the wave player.
>>
>> link.  But what I'd like to be able to do is have  the .wav file
>> piped to the player instead of first having to wait for it to be
>> completely transferred.  Is this possible?
>>
>> My .mailcap and .mime.types entries look like this:
>>
>> audio/x-wav; na_play %s
>> audio/x-wav wav

I've already posted on this subject.  lynx.exe calls raplayer, which
in turn connects to the stream.  lynx.exe has nothing whatever to do
with streaming downloads, and neither do other web browsers.

>>
>Lynx can't directly do this from a .mailcap entry.  You can try
>from the command line:
>
>    lynx -source ftp://site/path | na_play
>
>I believe that with any metamail-compatible system, if you include
>the "%s", the user agent creates a file and passes its name to the
>helper-app.  You must omit the "%s" to get real-time streaming.
>But while lynx lately supports the syntax, it still creates a file
>then pipes that with "cat" into the helper-app.
>
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