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

> > > > A friend says the 300 and 350 MHz AMD cpus, even in a super socket
> > > > 7, are i686 and ought to work with your first mplayer and that any
> > > > board which can go over 233 MHz is 686.
> > >
> > >
> > > I think that the Pentium MMX 266 and lower are merely i586. I know
> > > that all other Intels 233 or higher are 686s.
> >
> >
> > But what is an AMD K6 350MHz?  It did not work with the first mplayer you 
> > compiled.  In super socket 7.  Did your version actually require Intel? 
> > That may determine where we put the DVD drive.  I am not at that computer 
> > right now but how would I check if it is equivalent to i686 intel?
>
> The first version required i686, I think. That would've been the problem.


Are you saying that the problem is the AMD, or the super socket 7?

Is i686 an INTEL brand cpu, rather than a speed over 266?  Our currently 
four fastest cpus are all AMD (266, 300, 350, 475).  I have to check the 
500, 600 and 750 for AMD vs Intel if I need Intel.

> > And I could paste the URL in with gpm (or screen once I figure out how). I 
> > had Realplayer8 in linux working with links on one computer, but I can't 
> > think of a way to coordinate mplayer with links or lynx since I first need 
> > to extract the URL from files of various formats such as .pls or .m3u or 
> > whatever is used by realaudio and windows-media.  I bet Steven or you could 
> > come up with some script that looks for things starting in http:// or 
> > pnm:// or rstp:// (?) and cuts off anything preceding, except that some of 
> > these little files have TWO URLs in them with words in between.
>
> (I'm guessing you meant me when you said Steven)
Either Steven or Stephen.  Perhaps one of you could be 'Steve'?

> #!/bin/sh
> wget -q $1 -O /tmp/urlfile && sed -e 's/http:\/\//WORKShttp:\/\//g' -e 
> 's/rstp:\/\//WORKSrstp:\/\//g' -e 's/pnm:\/\//^WORKSpnm:\/\//g' /tmp/urlfile 
> |grep WORKS |sed -e 's/WORKS//g'
>
> With this it will automatically fetch the file and search out the URL's. 
> Getting it to automatically play is beyond the use of this script, however.

There may be other URL formats besides pnm and rstp and http - ftp?  Could 
it look for the first (or maybe the last) string with :// and cut off
the first space before that string and preceding characters, and the space 
after that string and following characters?  These strings all seem to be 
???:/ or ????://

The URL ends up as /tmp/urlfile?  I don't know how I would incorporate 
this in a browser but I will experiment.

> > I will try to hear the difference once I find a 20K OGG broadcast.
> > All the formats I have tried sound infinitely better than listening to 
> > radio broadcasts from 60-75 miles away, even at 20K, though this is 
> > supposed to be less than FM quality I think (is that 64K?).
>
> Yes, FM quality is supposedly 64K. Also, I will say too that I find OGG to be 
> superior.


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