Re: Realaudio for GS

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Greg Berigan <gberigan@cse.unl.edu> wrote:
>lkhaider@concentric.net (Laer Haider) wrote:
>
>>In MSIE 3.0 you can save any file by right clicking the object (such
>>as the Real Audio file you wish to play, or a .jpg or .gif image file)
>
>In the case of Real Audio, this saves not the audio file but the file
>containing the pnm:// URL pointing to the Real Audio file.  Note the
>saved file is almost always under 1K in size.
>
>The majority of Real Audio on the web is in streams, not downloadable
>files.  I don't think there's a chance in hell that Progressive Networks
>will write a Real Audio Player for the GS nor license their code to a GS
>developer.

Please forgive my ignorance, but if information is flowing to the
computer's serial port, what's to stop a program from intercepting
it and saving the data stream to disk?

I mean, if anyone really wanted to on a PC, they could take the sound
output and pipe it through their digitizer to convert it back into
a sound file.

I would think that the GS could just grab the data stream, chunk it
to disk, and then an application could decode it later.

-Scott G.