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- RAPlay, the Amiga RealAudio 14.4/28.8 player
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Rename the appropriate CPU version of the program to just RAPlay and put it
- in C: together with the PlayRA (this is the one to use whenever playing a file
- off the HD (make sure the S-bit is set, so it will run straight off)) script.
-
- You will need AHI installed and the AHI AUDIO: device mounted for playback...
- Make sure PIPE: is mounted also, as the streaming relies on it!
-
- RAPlay will decode 14.4 and 28.8 RealAudio streams correctly, all others will
- fail (including RealMedia and Int0 28.8 streams) and just return an error.
-
- In this archive there is also an ARexx script to stream .ra files straight off
- the web using the widely used .ram files .. to use this you need to get and
- install rxsocket.library (which you should anyways, it rules) and set the
- following MIME-types in your favourite browser:
-
- MIME: audio/x-pn-realaudio
- Extension: ram
- Ext. Viewer: (selected)
- Viewer: SYS:RexxC/RX
- Arguments: Your:Path/StreamRA.rx %f
-
- If you make sure the S-bit is set on StreamRA.rx you won't have to put RX
- infront of it ("Protect StreamRA.rx +s" (if so, put StreamRA.rx as viewer))...
-
- When that is done you can click on .ram files on the web and enjoy direct
- RealAudio streaming on your Amiga... ;)
-
- I've heard some ppl have problems with IBrowse not setting the path properly,
- thus making the script fail on revokation .. this is now solved by letting you
- edit the path in the script .. you can now also edit the initial playback
- buffer to reduce pauses in playback (note: this can be due to insufficient
- CPU power as well)
-
- Besides that, putting "Resident >NIL: SYS:RexxC/Rx FORCE" in User-Startup will
- work around that path problem .. "Resident >NIL: SYS:RexxC/WaitForPort FORCE"
- might be useful for other scripts as well... ;)
-
-
- History
- ~~~~~~~
-
- The trashing of audio that occurs sometimes when streaming is now completely
- fixed!!! .. The StreamRA.rx script now also supports multifile .rams and will
- also output any errormsgs... ;)
-
- RAPlay now also gives a more sensible returncode (20) when failing to decode
- the stream, ie. it will break a script that has <21 as failat.
-
- Using the new failure returncode, the StreamRA.rx script will break the current
- streaming download, thus preventing wasting bandwith and and pipe-time... ;)
-
- The somewhat annoying "loop" at the end of playback is now eliminated .. that
- should be the last bugfix of the original source.
-
- NEWS for v1.3 - D'Oh, previous bug wasn't quite fixed, now it is. ;)
-
- The executable will now automagically increase stack, thus
- fixing crashing/hanging some users have experienced...
-
- StreamRA.rx should now make sure that no tasks hang infinately.
-
- You can also issue breaks on current playbacks by
- "RX StreamRA.rx BREAK" .. then it'll try sending CTRL-C to all
- running RAPlay tasks...
-
- StreamRA.rx will now also let you save files while streaming if
- you edit the "savepath" variable in the script to point to your
- download dir or similar...
-
- (And a big thanks to DedD for sitting up late betatesting stuff
- for me... ;))) )
-
-
- Links
- ~~~~~
-
- Amiga RealAudio Support Page
- -> http://csc.smsu.edu/~strauser/RA.html
-
- Art Bell
- -> http://www.artbell.com/sound.html
-
- Gold Tooth
- -> http://www.goldtoothdisplay.com/avpage.shtml
-
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- ---
-
-
- Now all we need is a more standalone player that directly supports TCP/IP and
- AHI etc - anyone feel up to it? ;)
-
- And hopefully, someone will provide us with sources for Int0 and RealMedia
- (including higher bandwidths) streams in the near future .. if you have any
- info on this, please help us develop an even better product by telling us!!! ;)
-
-
- - Share and Enjoy! ;)
-