Streaming Real audio clips from the internet
I'm trying to play clips from the Reelplayer website, which I've been doing for years without problem. Now suddenly I first get asked to download the clip (Which of course it doesn't, they're not designed to), then when it's 'downloaded' some kind of mini file containing, I guess, the URL, but don't quote me on that. Then up pops the player and I get an error message.
I checked the preferences tab because I'm certain there used to be an option in there to play audio immediately which used to be set to yes by default, but I can't find it.
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What is the website you are playing these clips from? It is possible that this format is a very old format that we don't recognize or support anymore.
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Reelplayer.com
It's been featuring new exhibits from about 22 years ago up to a few months ago. But why would you stop supporting older formats? Firstly, the guy was trying to compile a 'museum' of radio recordings in high quality for students to study in a hundred or even thousand years time, and secondly, it makes a complete mockery of your claim that people love Real Player because it's the one that can read nearly all the formats if it can't even read it's own,
I think if I was faced with having to re-encode thousands of clips from scratch I'd say stuff that for a game of tennis and use an open format like .flac At least I'd be in with a chance of writing my own player.
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