The first episode is 10108928 bytes .ra realaudio file, ie approx 9-10 MB. It is half an hour long.
Whether it is feasible to stream and listen to this without dropouts at 56k is beyond me right at the moment, I always muck that math up - I think 56k is very approx 3 minutes per MB, so theoretically it is just possible. (10MB x3 minutes/MB = 30 min) However I suspect it would be unlistenable unless you set a very big cache. OTOH saving to disk and listening at your leisure should hopefully work. I am not exactly sure on the ins and outs of streaming, but hopefully writing the stream to hard disk should just pause when you have to wait and catch up. In other words waiting for a 5 second pause is tolerable to a hard disk, but not tolerable to your ear. Or to put it another way, taking an hour to download a 30 minute show is tolerable if you are saving it to your hard drive, but not if you are listening. On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 21:12 +1200, Julian Visch wrote: > Nick how big to the files tend to be, i.e. is it viable to download them > using > standard modem or do you need adsl? > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
