- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:48:39 -0800
- To: Rob Lanphier <robla@real.com>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Rob Lanphier wrote: > > Summary: Correction -- RealAudio does use URIs. > Thanks for the correction. I've only ever seen RealAudio use HTTP URIs and content-type based dispatching to launch the player. I would still expect that that dispatching mechanism is much more important to most users than the pnm: or rtsp: URIs you use internally. >... > Having URLs was very important to making SMIL work. Typical SMIL files > mingle RTSP and HTTP sources interchangably. If they are interchangable then how would SMIL "not work" if you used only HTTP URIs pointing to RAM/RA/... files? > ... Additionally, browsers now > typically support protocol handlers, and we take advantage of that (at > least on IE...for which RTSP URLs will use our player, or the Quicktime > player [I think], depending on how it's registered). I've never seen an RTSP URI in a web page but maybe I've just been unlucky. Paul Prescod
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