Re internet talk radio.....

marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 15:29:13 -0600
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Dave_Raggett writes:
> > 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.

Or alternately we need to harness packet audio/video into the
distributed hypermedia environment, so one can link to real-time
multicast feeds that are possibly kicked off on the remote system on
demand.  ??

Marc

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