Re internet talk radio.....

Dave_Raggett (dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 1 Apr 93 13:40:50 BST


> NCSA Mosaic 0.9 or later, with a properly configured
> audioPlayerCommand resource (metamail's "showaudio", by default), is
> the assumed interface.

Great idea! It seems daft though to have to first down load the files
before playing them. What we need is a smarter approach which concurrently
retreives the audio data and pipes it into the audio player process.

You will still need a few seconds (~5) to fill up a fifo so that you don't
get gaps in the sound track due fluctuations in network traffic.

Unfortunately, very few of us in HPLabs have audio capability on our
workstations - grr gnash grr

Dave Raggett