streaming a .rmvb possable

[gavo]

Does it actually work? Can you make a .ram and work with .rmvb?

[karl_lillevold]

With recent versions of RealServer or Helix Server, it should be able to stream VBR RealMedia, but I am afraid I do not know exactly when full support for this was introduced.

[Sirber]

If you don't want complicated things, you can setup a web server and put rmvb on it. RealPlayer will buffer it and start it. Personally, I never got Helix Server to work correctly :confused:

[karl_lillevold]

then it is called download, and not streaming. Not all players can start playing while downloading. With streaming, playback should start almost immediately. There have been a lot of efforts to reduce the dreading "buffering" time...

[Sirber]

RealPlayer and MPC can do. I know it's not real streaming but it works.

[gavo]

Ok thanx alot, do you think the meta unix way would work say for exmaple if it was streamed of a http site would it be http:// in notepad and if it was ftp would it be rtsp:// ?

[Sirber]

rtsp is not FTP, like http is ftp too.