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RE: How to get SMIL/Real Player to work (in Linux)
> 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.
That's exactly the behavior that I've observed on (at least) Windows: the
player doesn't get double-wide until after you dismiss the error message
(weird).
> 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.
Actually, for Linux if you don't add the "%u" then NO real links at all, on
any web site, work because Netscape spawns realplay without telling it what
to do (i.e., there's no OLE or DDE-like mechanism to transfer files to
realplay). Once you add the "%u", then all links work fine without any
modifications needed to the bibs replay script. So, as far as I can see
only Macs would need the special link.
However, since web browsers report their OS I guess another option is to
consider is to enhance the replay script to detect a person's OS--this
option might turn out to be more complicated than it's worth. I don't have
access to a Mac, so if someone can point their Mac web browser to
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/capstone/webdel/hello.cgi and e-mail me the contents
I'd appreciate it.
MD