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From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:18:36 +0100
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>>are the real-audio and flash web formats documented somewhere?

>Internals of the RA/RV are proprietary and their formats are not publicly
>available. RealMedia is the container type which encapsulates RA/RV

much more as i expected (which is why i asked).
i knew about the stream format (more or less) because that's publicly documented.
some web content that end users want to have is not.
it's only available via binary plug-ins, and some -- perhaps many -- of those
only work under windows (and sometimes only within
a browser, though that might not be true of realaudio).
by `format' i meant the whole thing.
it seems a bit pointless to implement the transport without being
able to replay the sounds it contains.