Re: lynx-dev Lynx and mp3 files

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:47:59PM +0100, Michel SUCH wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am very new to this mailing list and don't know if this matter has been
> discussed before.
> 
> Well, I work on porting lynx2-8-5 to os/2 with gcc/emx compiler.

2.8.5's in development
2.8.4 is the current release
 
> I have a problem with mp3 files.
> 
> I set up a viewer for those files, and when downloading one, the sound is
> very bad.
> Looking at the file stored in the temporary directory I can see that its
> length is different from the original one.
> 
> With the trace option, I can imagine that all this comes from somewhere in
> the
> www/library/implementation directory, but I cannot figure how to fix this.
> 
> One solution I can imagine is, when file extension is mp3, create some m3u
> or mpl file in the temp directory and stream the mp3 file.
> 
> Has this already been evoked before?

yes - Doug Kaufman questioned whether we're setting binary mode properly
in all places (no definite report, but some concerns after I tried fixing
some of the inconsistencies).

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