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In article <89dso8$ra1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  troffasky@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <FqJyJ5.KGA@elch.swb.de>,
>   Karl Brodowsky <bk1@elch.swb.de> wrote:
> > In gnu.misc.discuss phil hunt <philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> schrieb:
> >
> > | The reason I ask is that one annoying thing about RealPlayer is
that
> > | it will only play a datastream as it is being connected to the
> > | stream via the Internet; it will not allow the stream to be saved
> > | and played back later. This can be problematic when one has a slow
> > | or intermittent connection (i.e. most times).
> >
> > Why not set up a local installation of a webserver, for example
apache
> > or roxen?  Then you can provide your saved music file by having it
on
> > your local web server.
> Did you not read what he said? "it will not allow the stream to be
saved
> ".
>
> Nope. RealPlayer doesn't go via http [well, not port 80, anyway]. It
> requires a special product [RealServer] to stream the media. But I
> should think eavesdropping on a conversation between RealPlayer and
> a RealServer should be trivially easy [libpcap maybe?]. I assume there
> is some kind of low-strength encryption going on [think US exports],
> but maybe with the recent change in the US crypto laws, release 7 will
> maybe use stronger encryption? Once you get round the encryption, it
is
> probably no more than good ole' MPEG, my reasoning being that they
> wouldn't arse about with R&D costs for a new format. However, I could
> be spectacularly wrong. I was just trying to spec out RealJukebox, but
> real.com is a bit slooooooow at the moment.
>
> It is probably only a matter of time before the real format gets
reverse
> engineered, but expect there is all kinds of patent-related shit going
> on.
UPDATE: RealServer basic is a free download, and version 6 will run on
just about any OS you can think of. Get hacking.

alex d


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