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Re: MIGS problems
> Tim, so you launched RealPlayer twice for each of the session's two video
> streams?
No, when you click on the link then the RealPlayer starts up with ONE smil
file, which will then automatically connect to two streams. So there is
only one instance of RealPlayer going, but the screen is twice as wide.
> With Macintosh RealPlayer 8 and Netscape Browser 4.72, clicking on the
> live-broadcast link for the Multimedia Seminar yesterday produced first a
> "no application set for mime type 'smi'"... so it appears that the
> 2-video-stream session [<smil> ... </smil>] file is not recognized by the
> RealPlayer I have.
Hmmm, that is really surprising since SMIL was around even in RealPlayer
5. I would think that they put the functinality there for Mac already. But
I am not sure why it doesn't know about it.
> Picking Realplayer as the target application makes the player then
> complain that I needed some extra capability and/or plugin. This
> identical setup, by the way, handles archived replaye sessions perfectly
> -- but since these are sessions with only 1 video-stream.
When you go for 1 video stream then you don't even bother with the smil
stuff. So it seems like your client is having problems with smil. Also, I
know that if you are running RealPlayer7 then you need to upgrade to
RealPlayer 8 to get our streams, but if you already have RealPlayer8
installed then that should be all you need. It shouldn't ask for any
additional plugin.
> Is this working transparently under Windows? If so, is the live-broadcast
> session file supposed to be handled `as is' by RealPlayer 8?
Yup, if you have RealPlayer 8 that is all you need. As long as the MIME
type for smil is correct it will all work when you click on the link...
Tim