Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:45:20 -0500 (CDT) From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> To: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: href=rtsp Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208011831560.8187-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208011650030.3679-100000@moritz.alleswirdgruener>
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Hmmm; On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > Hi, > > in my "metafile studies", I came over the direct > link href=rtsp://bla/bla.mp4 to the mediafile. > See for example at http://212.202.128.197/~uzs106/ > This link is interpreted as a link to a file called > "rtsp://bla/bla.mp4", which isnt there. > Old Netscape 4.something. IMHO, i wouldnt attribute this directly to a browser implementation. It's jsut one way of doing it that is still perfectly valid as far as i know. > Somebody now said, that modern browsers interprete > such links in a different way. The player gets the > url without metafile. How is this done, which browsers, one thing that would come immediately to mind would be mimetype. that is the stuff that the author of the page you are referring to when he lists things like 'video/vnd.mpegurl' and stuff like that. a stream would be likely to include it's MIME type as part of the opening bytes. the browser would be free to call something else if the mimetype was not text/html or text/plain, since these are about the only things that a browser knows how to present natively anyway. the other thing to note is that most players have significant 'url-ish capacities' built into them, so they are capable of accessing urls and resolving them appropriately. > if it is true. i guess that it is true, to some extent. but the boudaries between browsers, plugins and players is so squishy as to make the question moot, at least in the way you seem to be asking it. is there a more specific item that you want cleared up? btw, that page is pretty cool. HTH johnu > > H. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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