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- From: serpent@voicenet.com (Eric Lanier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: RealAudio Format
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 18:46:45 GMT
- Organization: Genom Production Control Centre(TW), LTD (Taiwan Division)
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- Per Jacobsen (perjac@inet.uni-c.dk) wrote:
- : Robert Davis (rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- : > mafuller@clubmet.metrobbs.com (Fuller) writes:
- :
- : > >Does anyone know what REALAUDIO format is and can it be heard on the Ami
- : > a?
- :
- : > I am aware of the VWire project, but it seems to have stalled.
- : > Is there anyone else working on a program to play REALAUDIO
- : > on an Amiga?
- :
- : They are hardly likely to tell you are they?
- :
- : The people who have copyright on the format DO NOT want to make an amiga
- : version, or give amiga people information about the format.
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- One might wonder why. I had an email exchange with someone who knows one of
- their in house programmers. He said basically that they know that the Amiga
- chipset could easily handle the task. However, a port will never come to
- light. Because for reasons unknown, they do not like the Amiga. Go figure...
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- So if you are running ShapeShifter, that is close as what your're going to get
- to see RealAudio running on the Amiga.
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- : Therefore the only way to get it to work on the amiga is to hack the code
- : on another machine. Possibly a macintosh since it uses a motorola processor.
- : In other words someone would have to reverse engineer it, and thats not
- : something you would like to advertize all over the place. Unless AT does
- : it of course, lots of publicity :)
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- So, where can I pick up my copy. ;)
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- EL
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