On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:15:06PM -0700, Umar Qureshey wrote: > Hi, > I downloaded and cross-compiled lynx-2.8.4.1b for an ARM target. The > problem is that I am trying to launch an external program called "madplay" > to play streaming mp3 files. The mp3 software works great standalone (even > with streams piped into it through another program) but, for some reason, > lynx is not spawning it. I have compiled with the following options: > I am running lynx on an embedded platform so I tried to trim the fat.
you can also reduce the number of character sets which are supported (by about 40kb, by using --with-charsets=minimal). > > In lynx.cfg, I have enabled PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP:/tmp/mime.type and > PERSONAL_MAILCAP:/tmp/.mailcap > > In /tmp/mime.type, I have: > audio/mpg mp3 MP3 > audio/mpeg mp3 MP3 > > In /tmp/.mailcap, I have: > audio/mpg;madplay -Q %s > audio/mpeg;madplay -Q %s > > However this does not work. It seems that lynx is not even launching > madplay because I tried replacing madplay in .mailcap with a program called > tone which basically emits a tone from the speaker. But upon launching an > audio/mpeg type stream, I heard nothing. > Another thing I noticed is that the lynx in my potato debian installation > has commands such as -noexec, -locexec, and -exec defined but my arm lynx > does not. I can't think of anything that I might be missing so any help > would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. The -exec, etc., are for making lynx invoke local scripts - not a factor here. I'd try first running lynx using the -trace option and see if anything showed up there. (Not an expert, the mime and mailcaps look ok to me). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
