Re: lynx-dev Real Plauyer support and devloping my own copy of Lynx

[brian j. pardy]

Eric wrote:
> ] Second, I already have a version of lynx on my computer but it doesnot
> ] support SSl, but that  isn't my question right now.
> ] Has anyone got lynx 2.8.1 running with Real Player g+2 beta.
> ] If so how?
> 
> I think one of the biggest problems with that particularly is that Real
> Player is written for the X Window System, at least the Unix version. It
> is possible that one could tweak the /etc/mailcap file or
> /usr/bin/showaudio script to play RA files by spawning the RealPlayer,
> or use the special RealAudio URL (I forget what it was now...) using the
> EXTERNAL feature of the Lynx browser (i.e. the EXTERNAL statements at
> the end of lynx.cfg) This at least pertains to the various Unix
> operating systems, but not to DOS.

Here are the entries that I'm using, seems to spawn things just fine (I
haven't tried this on any RealPlayer files using 2.8.1 yet, but it worked
before...)

/etc/mime.types:

audio/x-pn-realaudio            ram
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin     rpm
audio/x-realaudio               ra

/etc/mailcap:

audio/x-pn-realaudio;/usr/local/bin/rvplayer %s
# this next line might not be necessary, I just thought of adding it
audio/x-realaudio;/usr/local/bin/rvplayer %s

I'm sure it could also be done by using an EXTERNAL on the RealAudio
protocol (which is pnm: if I remember correctly)...

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