From: Adam Cappio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with RealPlayer 7 metafile 'end' command?
Lawrence,
This is in fact a bug in RealPlayer 7 that is being worked on. It is only
an issue when streaming via PNM/PNA. It does not affect streaming via
RTSP, and start and end times cannot be supported via HTTP because web
servers do not know how to seek in a file.
With that in mind, you can solve the problem by changing your script to
generate RAM files in the following format (there should be three lines
starting with rtsp, --stop--, and pnm, respectively):
rtsp://real.stealing-fire.com/Audio/JethroTull/JTullDotCom/Spiral.ra?title="
Spiral"&author"J-Tull Dot Com"©right="1999"&start="00:00:00"&end="00:00:45"
--STOP--
pnm://real.stealing-fire.com/Audio/JethroTull/JTullDotCom/Spiral.ra?title="S
piral"&author"J-Tull Dot Com"©right="1999"&start="00:00:00"&end="00:00:45"
With this format, RealPlayer 7 will connect via RTSP and work fine, and 5.0
players will connect via PNM and work fine.
Hope this helps.
Adam
At 12:54 PM 1/18/00 , RealForum wrote:
>From: "Lawrence A. (Wes) Westhaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Problem with RealPlayer 7 metafile 'end' command?
>
>Can anyone help me? It seems that the latest RealPlayer doesn't handle =
>"end=" commands in a RAM file like it should. I have a site that =
>streams audio clips and I dynamically generate RAM files to do this. I =
>include a "start" and an "end" time in the RAM file to limit a user to =
>approximately 45 seconds of audio. This has worked very well for =
>everyone until RealPlayer 7 arrived.=20
>
>The following is an example of a RAM file generated by my system:
>
>pnm://real.stealing-fire.com/Audio/JethroTull/JTullDotCom/Spiral.ra?title="S
>piral"&author"J-Tull Dot
Com"©right="1999"&start="00:00:00"&end="00:00:45"
>
>(The audio clip on my server is actually 3 minutes 53 seconds. And =
>contains the entire audio track for this song.)
>
>When a RealPlayer 7 executes this it will start at the beginning of the =
>audio clip, play approx. 43 seconds, stop playing, start flashing =
>"buffering" for the next 3 minutes 10 seconds.
>
>So, it appears that the player is stalled but running to the actual end =
>of the audio clip!? Please help me with this. Is this a bug?
>
>If you would like to see the web site itself, go to:
>
>http://www.stealing-fire.com/jtll
>
>Wes
>http://www.stealing-fire.com
>
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