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RAPlay, the Amiga RealAudio 14.4/28.8 player
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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
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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! ;)