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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:11:30AM +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> Hi Sindi,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:49:37 +0000
> sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 
> > > > > > and midi player (timidity?)
> > > > > 
> > > > >   Yes, but you will also need the sound patches.
> > > > Some day.  I think you said they were quite large.
> > > 
> > >    Yep.  I collected the 23 MB set.
> > 
> > I was hoping the 11M of RP would play midis but no such luck, just wavs.
> 
>    Remember, MIDIs are just lists of instructions to the sound cards.  
> They have no "embedded" sounds in the file. These instructions tell the 
> sound card which MIDI patch (instrument voice) to play, at what 
> frequence/volume and for how long.

In DOS I can play midis without wave table or patches, that sound like a 
kazoo.  Is there something similar for linux? Two of my cards sound better 
and have 2M RAM into which wave tables are loaded.

 > 
> > Is there something smaller to play with that does not use sound patches 
> > just FM synthesis for midis?
> 
>    You would need to look at a MIDI device or a daughter board attached to 
> a 
> sound card to play MIDIs without suitable patches.
Probably the daughter board plus in where it says 'wave table' on the 
card.
> 
> 
> > >     Bothe xine and mplayer wil play Windows Media files.
> > >
> > Which is smaller and did anyone compile for glibc 2.2.5?
> > I found mplayer for SW9 and 10 but nothing earlier at linuxpackages and 
> > did not find it on the SW71 CD - is there a SW71 version around?
> 
>    No, I really looked.
>  
> > Why do you need to download a blasted movie player in order to listen to 
> > online radio???
> 
>    You don't.
Most of the online radio stations call for Windows Media Player now and 
you say mplayer is the linux equivalent and it also plays movies.  I would 
like to see a version that plays only internet radio files.  

 > 
> > Have you tried using Realaudio with links2 instead of Netscape or Opera?
> 
>    I get RealPlayer to be called from Links graphical when running under X. 
>   

Please explain exactly how you set this up in Setup - associations and 
file extensions, I presume.  Thanks.  It took me two hours of 
experimenting to get it working with Opera.  audio/x-pn something or 
other?  ram,rm,rmm,rpm as file extensions?

> Regards,
>          Ron
> 
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