Re: Newsnight

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Al Hudson wrote:

> I think the .rm and the pnm:// mean it's a RealVideo stream or some other
> such new fangledness ;)

pnm is almost 5 years old the new fangled (but also getting old now) is
rtsp:// which is what I'm working on at the moment with my linux encoders
whenever I get time between the dull work.

My first experience of realaudio (as it was origionally) was cool.  I'd heard
about it after setting up my ip_masq isdn linux network while working for
ICL, I installed raplayer but had not yet set the mime types in netscape (version 2 I
think) when I clicked on the link, which was to a ram file it popped up a
download window for an instant.  I knew the ISDN was fast but that didn't
make sense and I assumed that it was just a really short bit of audio.  I
carried on what I was doing with other things and let the dial-on-demand
setup idleout while I had a drink.  Later I came backup and typed raplayer
filename.ram and up it started, playing a really cool quality piece of music
for .. ages ?!  I checked the filesize and saw it was about 50 bytes!!  I
glanced over at the lights on the external isdn box and it dawned on me....

Damion

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