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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> > > > > 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 ????://

I'm not understanding what you're asking...do you want this:

Random junk in .pls files...
File1=http://www.radiostation.com/play.mp3
Random junk in .pls files...

Do you want that to become just the URL of the file?

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

You have to copy the URL as an option to the script.

> > > 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.
Stephen Clement

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