********* Please note that responses to this post should be posted to the RealForum Bulletin Board. Email responses will be forwarded to the bulletin board, but will not be mailed to the RealForum mailing list. The RealForum Bulletin Board can be found at: http://realforum.real.com/cgi-bin/realforum/wwwthreads.pl ********* From: "Wagner, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Anyone else interested in these features? Real Developers, I'll be at the Real Conference 2000 and would like to push for a couple of additional features to the RMA core. These are the same feature requests I made last year. Obviously nothing came of it. Every once and a while I see posts on these topics and wondering how much other interest there might be in these. FEATURE #1 Would like the ability to embed generic, user-defined events in the stream that would be forwarded to the browser, but otherwise ignored by the RealPlayer. Real currently allows the following 4 types of script commands: URL, Title, Author, Copyright. In order to send custom control from the encoder to the browser, you have to piggyback on one of these types. This works ok if the player is embedded in a browser that can filter out the custom control. But if the stream is played back via a stand-alone player all sorts of strange things can happen. Why can't another script command type be defined - ie. UserEvent - that allows custom control to be passed transparently through the stream? FEATURE #2 Would like to have more control over what happens to the first instantiation of the RealPlayer when a second instantiation of the RealPlayer started. As currently implemented the first player will stop any time a second player is activated. Would like the ability to optionally... stop any existing instantiation, pause any existing instantiation, or do nothing to existing instantiations. Talked at length with Karim Meghji and Alain Hammel at Real '99 and the consensus was that there was no technical reason (other than bandwidth contention) that two RealPlayers could not run concurrently. No one could recall why the decision was made to issue the stop command - most likely backwards compatibility with version 5. So, why not give developers the control to decide what happens? Steven Wagner Akamai Technologies, Inc. 1011 Western Ave Suite 800 Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 674-6044 direct (206) 674-6001 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.akamai.com ******** You may reply to this post at: http://realforum.real.com/cgi-bin/realforum/dosearch.pl?Cat=&Forum=All_Forum s&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Words=Anyone%20else%20interest ed%20in%20these%20features ******************************************************* The RealForum is an email discussion group focused on using RealNetworks products. The RealForum is a place to post messages about the best methods for creating content using RealNetworks technologies and the planning and implementation of streaming-media web sites. Archives of RealForum can be found at http://realforum.real.com If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe realforum or from another account, besides the address you subscribed with: unsubscribe realforum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
