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Date:      Sun, 12 May 1996 13:11:22 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: playing sound out of netscape 
Message-ID:  <199605121111.NAA25983@grumble.grondar.za>

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"Christoph P. Kukulies" wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get sound (and video) out of a WWW browser?
> E.g., netscape?

Yup...

> I started Navigator 2.0 (don't know if that one supports sound
> already) and then I clicked the speaker symbol in netscapes
> home page. All I got was flashing speakers and a fast looping
> 'document finished' or something in the lower left where
> the percentage loaded at x KB/s normally appears.
> 
> I don't know though if that behaviour is a peculiarity of my ISDN
> connection when the connection gets lost after a timeout.

I had to install sox (from ports) and do some fiddling in mime.types,
but I can now do .wav and .au files. (I suspect I can do a lot more,
but I have not acually seen any others). This was with Netsape 2,
and it also works with Netscape 3.

M
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