Re: lynx-dev sound playing problem

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In a recent note, A. R. Vener said:

> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 08:18:44 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> I have a realaudio player that plays the streaming 
> audio immediately as it is being received.  On the other
> hand lynx apparently downloards all the data from a wave file
> first and then calls the wave player.
> 
> link.  But what I'd like to be able to do is have  the .wav file
> piped to the player instead of first having to wait for it to be
> completely transferred.  Is this possible?
> 
> My .mailcap and .mime.types entries look like this:
> 
> audio/x-wav; na_play %s
> audio/x-wav wav
> 
Lynx can't directly do this from a .mailcap entry.  You can try
from the command line:

    lynx -source ftp://site/path | na_play

I believe that with any metamail-compatible system, if you include
the "%s", the user agent creates a file and passes its name to the
helper-app.  You must omit the "%s" to get real-time streaming.
But while lynx lately supports the syntax, it still creates a file
then pipes that with "cat" into the helper-app.

-- gil
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