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RE: How to get SMIL/Real Player to work (in Linux)
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Matthew Delco wrote:
> One thing I forgot to mention is that, for editing links so that they work
> my test script, you not only have to use the script name replaym, but you
> must also change the URL's CGI query string so that says smil2 instead of
> smil--the web page I mentioned in my last e-mail has an appropriate example
> link.
>
> . . .
>
> I didn't find a spec for the .ram file format, so I'm not sure if the
> trailing --stop-- is required (both windows and linux work fine without it).
Interesting, now for a test... I gave my Mac Netscape Browser the
edited live-broadcast URL,
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/bibs/
replaym?date=live&session=3&rep=real:smil2
and it appears to go thru the right moves, ie., the browser
downloads/builds a replaym local file and RealPlayer is launched with a
file URL to this file on... next I get an alert from RealPlayer unable to
follow the rtsp link to slides.rm file, I step thru the alert and next the
Player resizes its window to handle the 2-videostreams... and things then
stop, presumably because we have no live broadcast at the moment.
Neat, Matthew! Recapping, for the Mac your solution appears to work
asis... and for linux, I understood you to say that it works provided the
help app config is modified to launch realplayer with "%u", no? So for
deployment we could use the above URL for Mac and *nix platforms and the
orginal URL for Windows.
-- Denis