Re: MIGS problems

• To: Peter Pletcher <peterp@bmrc.berkeley.edu>
• Subject: Re: MIGS problems
• From: Denis DeLaRoca <delaroca@ucla.edu>
• Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:34:07 -0700 (PDT)
• cc: Openmash <openmash-users@openmash.org>
• In-Reply-To: <39B04684.51EDC761@bmrc.berkeley.edu>

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Peter Pletcher wrote:

> This won't work because there is no smil file - it is generated by the
> CGI script (and contains dynamic information from the DB).  Too bad the
> Mac player ignores the Content-Type HTTP field.

And possibly this includes the Linux Player as well... Tim joined the
session by downloading the SMIL file and then loading it up from
RealPlayer.

As a kludge, couldn't the CGI script generate temporary SMIL files purged
at the end of the session or some other convenuent time... after all the
fallback for non Windows users is to download the SMIL into a file to then
load it manually thru RealPlayer?
 
> I don't know the answer yet, but am working on this.  I think I saw
> somewhere that you could give the RealPlayer a URL parameter specifying
> a mime type, but am not sure.

That's what the /m option to RealPlayer appears to be doing under Windows,
no? Ok, let me poke some more in Real's developer docs. I got a reply from
Real but it was limited to tell me "go do a clean install of RealPlayer!"

Thanks,

-- Denis

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