Ok,
Thought I would add a few comments since I'm fairly familiar with the
RealNetworks side of things. Real generally reccomends that you use .ram
files to deliver the content to everyone, but the reason for this is the
fact that browsers and/or webservers don't recognize MIME types correctly.
If you're serving the file from the webserver (not streaming), you need to
make sure the x/pn-realaudio MIME type is correctly defined on IIS (or
whatever, you still may need to use a .ram file for Netcrap - I've not had
much luck with it either).
If you're serving the file from a RealServer (streaming), you can use the
ramgen utility on RealServer to automatically create and serve text files to
visiting clients. If you spend a little time with it, you can even get CF
to autogenerate and manage the ramgen links for you.
<cf_memories>
Back in '98, I built the TVW website at www.tvw.org. My first adventure in
CF, it manages over 15,000 RealAudio and RealVideo files for your
government-big-brother listening pleasure. It serves Real files by
auto-generating .ram file links for RealServer from CF. The method was
based on the same principle as ramhurl.cgi, which RealNetworks developed to
address the same issue. (Can't you just imagine having 15,000 1kb .ram files
that are just pointers and need to be MANUALLY changed everytime the file is
moved or renamed???)
</cf_memories>
Regards,
Ryan
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From: Nick McClure
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 6/21/00 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Nutscrape Problem
What you should do is create a ram file, a ram file is a text file that
has
the location of the media file(s)
all you do is in your link use
<A HREF="genesis.ram">Real Audio</A>
genesis.ram has the following:
rtsp://server/genesis.ra
I cannot remember how MS recommends media player to be done but the
above
is the way Real says to do it for all browsers.
At 11:51 AM 6/22/2000 +1000, you wrote:
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>Duane,
>
>Maybe the Mime types for these files are not set on the web server?
>I'm pretty sure netscape uses a different scheme for registered file
types
>than IE, and therefore IE may be able to recognise non-explicitlity
stated
>types. Dunno...
>
>Jared Clinton.
>
>Duane Boudreau wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am having problems with Netscape linking to Real Audio and Windows
Media
> > Player multimedia files.
> >
> > The links are:
> >
> > <A HREF="rtsp://server/genesis.ra">Real Audio</A>
> >
> > <A HREF="mms://server/genesis.asf">Windows Media</A>
> >
> > If I link to either of these in Netscape I get 404 error, but with
IE
> > everything is fine. Any ideas why?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Duane Boudreau
> > CFExperts.Com
> > Why, oh, why can't Netscape just go away!
> >
> >
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>Duane,
>
>Maybe the Mime types for these files are not set on the web server?
>I'm pretty sure netscape uses a different scheme for registered file
types
>than IE, and therefore IE may be able to recognise non-explicitlity
stated
>types. Dunno...
>
>Jared Clinton.
>
>Duane Boudreau wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I am having problems with Netscape linking to Real Audio and Windows
Media
>>Player multimedia files.
>>
>>The links are:
>>
>><A HREF="rtsp://server/genesis.ra">Real Audio</A>
>>
>><A HREF="mms://server/genesis.asf">Windows Media</A>
>>
>>If I link to either of these in Netscape I get 404 error, but with IE
>>everything is fine. Any ideas why?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Duane Boudreau
>>CFExperts.Com
>>Why, oh, why can't Netscape just go away!
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