broadcast.com has mostly windows stuff? ironic ..i heard that broadcast.com uses a few hundred linux boxes to host their content ! lol
----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > I have Netscape Communicator 4.7 and RealPlayer 6.0.4.433 (Beta) > installed on my potato system. > > I went to this page on Broadcast.com, to access a local radio > station: > > http://www.broadcast.com/radio/Rock/WKLS/ > > They have a button for a RealPlayer broadcast. I hit the button, > at which point Netscape asked me to save a document called > makeram.asp. I saved it, and it had these contents: > > pnm://raads.broadcast.com/ads/firstusa/visa2GW.ra > pnm://209.0.225.168/wkls.ra > > The first URL is a Visa ad, and the second one is the broadcast I > want. I can use RealPlayer's "Open Presentation..." command and > enter the pnm://whateverblahblahblah, and it plays the thing. > > But, why doesn't Netscape just do the right thing? With some > experimentation, it appears that when I click the button on the > web page, Netscape eventually gets something of the form > "http://somehost/makeram.asp?something";. Rather than passing the > "makeram.asp?something" back to the server, Netscape wants to > save it, thinking it to be an unhandled file type. > > Anyone have any ideas about how I can fix this? > > A somewhat related question: many of the things on Broadcast.com > are available only in Windows Media Player formats. Is there a > way to play these under Linux? > > - Kris > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
