Re: performance testtool

[Matthew Campbell]

It may take a lot of work to implement the option you want.  The reason is
that the RealSystem programming interfaces I'm currently using do not allow
me to disable encoding.  TRPlayer passes the URL of the presentation to the
RealSystem "client core", which then connects to the server, downloads the
stream, decodes it, and plays it.  TRPlayer can get information about what
the client core is doing (contacting, buffering, etc.), and it can control
the playback, but it can't disable decoding of the stream.  To disable the
encoding, I would have to figure out how to download the stream directly
using the appropriate RealSystem plug-in, and I currently don't know how to
do that.

Besides, this is not what TRPlayer is intended to do.  TRPlayer is a
command-line RealMedia payer, especially intended for those who can't use
the standard RealPlayer under Linux, either because they can't see or
because they have older computers.  Perhaps someone else, maybe
RealNetworks, could make a RealServer performance test tool, if one hasn't
been created already.

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Matt Campbell
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