RE: lynx-dev Unable to execute external commands

[Umar Qureshey]

Ok thanks for the tip on further reducing lynx's size.  After doing some
more research and looking thru the mailing list archives, it seems the
problem is that lynx will not launch the mp3 player until after the download
is complete.  However, since this is a streaming mp3 file, it is basically
infinite in size and the download will never finish.  This explains the mp3s
with strange names in the /tmp directory when I activate an audio/mpeg link.
So that kinda sux.  I was hoping to just pipe the mp3 data received into the
mp3 player and play music but now I am gonna have to find a different path.
My plan now is to launch and external program to which lynx will pass the
url, the program will connect to the url and start receiving data, and pipe
this to the mp3 player.  It's a bit circumspect but I don't see another way.
Does anyone know of a some compact and solid C code for parsing URLs?  Lynx
should have some, any idea what the function is called so I can grep for it.

Thanks,
UQ

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dickey [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 5:11 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Unable to execute external commands


On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:15:06PM -0700, Umar Qureshey wrote:
> Hi,
>   I downloaded and cross-compiled lynx-2.8.4.1b for an ARM target.  The
> problem is that I am trying to launch an external program called "madplay"
> to play streaming mp3 files.  The mp3 software works great standalone
(even
> with streams piped into it through another program) but, for some reason,
> lynx is not spawning it.  I have compiled with the following options:
 
> I am running lynx on an embedded platform so I tried to trim the fat.

you can also reduce the number of character sets which are supported
(by about 40kb, by using --with-charsets=minimal).

> 
> In lynx.cfg, I have enabled PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP:/tmp/mime.type and
> PERSONAL_MAILCAP:/tmp/.mailcap
> 
> In /tmp/mime.type, I have:
> audio/mpg mp3 MP3
> audio/mpeg mp3 MP3
> 
> In /tmp/.mailcap, I have:
> audio/mpg;madplay -Q %s
> audio/mpeg;madplay -Q %s
> 
> However this does not work.  It seems that lynx is not even launching
> madplay because I tried replacing madplay in .mailcap with a program
called
> tone which basically emits a tone from the speaker.  But upon launching an
> audio/mpeg type stream, I heard nothing.
> Another thing I noticed is that the lynx in my potato debian installation
> has commands such as -noexec, -locexec, and -exec defined but my arm lynx
> does not.  I can't think of anything that I might be missing so any help
> would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

The -exec, etc., are for making lynx invoke local scripts - not a factor
here.

I'd try first running lynx using the -trace option and see if anything
showed up there.  (Not an expert, the mime and mailcaps look ok to me).


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