On Tue, 27 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fwiw, at the present time, video/x-ms-wxv is among the "hacks". These > "hacks" were requirements. We're hoping that some future version may > lose some or all of these hacks. But don't hold your breath, I've been > holding my breath for two years and only just now got a sign that maybe > something might happen eventually.
As I recall, these "playlist" content-types such as WXV, WXA and Realmedia RAM are required because the browsers do not understand RTSP URLs. So there's a short text file containing the URL of the stream. For a video file available via HTTP, using the playlist will let Mplayer stream it via HTTP, otherwise you have to wait for the entire file to download. It may be a hack, but I'm not sure how you'd get around it. At one time I thought there was a mailcap variant that caused Netscape to pass a URL to the helper application rather than downloading the file and passing the filename. Or I guess you write a browser plugin. Personally, I prefer an external helper that doesn't take the browser with it when it crashes... -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
