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

I could not get Realplayer to work with lynx - it complained about the 
wrong format.  When I finally just typed in the URL in the little RP 
window the window disappeared.  I think lynx cannot multitask.

So I quit lynx, having copied down a few URLs of stations ending in .ram 
or .rmm, and while in Xvesa/rxvt typed realplay, then mouse on File, Open, 
type in the URL at the bottom on the File line, Enter key, and it 
is playing!  You need X but not a browser.  The browser is only to track 
down useful URLs and it is possible to make a list of them instead.  

X is needed only because Realaudio was designed to be a resource  hog.

Is there any way to automate playing .ram files from a list, maybe with 
MC, instead of typing them in?  It would have to be done in X.  And there 
is probably some easier way to record the URLs than paper and pencil, 
maybe by printing out from lynx one of the sites with links to radio 
stations, and getting the full list at the end of the text document.

I am currently telnetted in a text terminal, while listening to a 
Beethoven piano concerto in X.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:06:16AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> boot with bare.i kernel from SW71
> load sound modules for ess solo chip (soundcore, soundlow, sound, 
> esssolo1) using script
> 
> Xvesa -screen 640x480x16 &rxvt -e links2 -g
> (I could not manage to specify mode for links2 so got the default 640,
> therefore Xvesa should match or it goes offscreen)
> ESC  Setup
> Associations:  Label - realaudio
>               Content-type  audio/x-pn-realaudio
>               Program   /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay
> Uncheck Block terminal, Run in terminal and Ask before opening
> Close
> 
> File extensions:  Extension(s)  ram,rm,ra,rmm  
> (do NOT use rpm which is found in Opera unless you want to play rpm 
> binaries)
> Content-type  audio/x-pn-realaudio
> Close
> Save options (important!!!)
> 
> Test this on a local file in the Realplayer directory (firstrun.rm)
> which does not mean it worked since this is not an audio/x-pn-realaudio
> and if you put application instead of audio/x-pn in both places it still 
> works.  I had to fix this when an online file brought upan error message 
> about nothing being assigned to content-type audio/x-pn-realaudio
> 
> Do a google search on internet classical realaudio and click on a link, it 
> brings up the Realaudio window and buffers and plays.
> 
> Hitting Ctrl-X stops the playing and after this (maybe even if you don't 
> exit that way) none of the keyboard navigation works any more in links, 
> but the mouse works so I am stuck with that.  
> 
> You can change to a text console and run other programs while listening to 
> the radio.  RP has a volume adjustment but so does my boombox set to line 
> in and pluggd in with a stereo-to-sound-card and two monos to boombox 
> which I think comes with some sound cards (or Radio Shack).
> 
> If you go into X or Xvesa with icewm, startx, and more than 640 
> resolution, typing links2 -g gets you the same resolutoin.
> 
> Anyway, Xvesa works fine for Realaudio (except I cannot get it to install 
> on a computer where I did not install the full set of X packages, 
> which might just be some file is missing somehow, and there is a bug of 
> some sort telling me the wrong error).
> 
> I might try this next with lynx in Xvesa rxvt.
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