Tech: Who can hear .rm files? was: Boudewijn's website

Sally Caves wrote:

> I have
> Netscape Communicator 4.0, but I need to know what plug-in will let me
> hear
> rm files.  When I click on "more info" it puts me in a page that says
> that
> I am missing some cool features that a plug-in will remedy, but after
> that
> it's pretty vague.
To refine that comment:  I go to the page, and it basically says:
"Netscape doesn't know of a plug-in for your plug-in type."
        (audio/x-pn-realvideo)

So it sends me to a page with plug-in descriptions.  There are about
176 of them, and they describe only a few.  One of them is RealPlayer.
This of course isn't the RealPlayer software, which I have, but the
RealPlayer plug-in, right?  Is that the one I should download?

confused...Sally


Weirdly, when I uploaded .rm files to my website and
> tried to play them, they printed out in graphic form as gibberish.  Not
> the "you have started to download a format with..." message.
>
> I found it easier just to change the extensions from .rm to .ra.  But I
> can hardly ask you to do that for seventy sound files!  Does your new
> recorder allow you to save in .ra format?  If so, what recorder do you
> have?
>
> Sally
>
> > > is now in realaudio format.
> >
> > Ironically, while I could hear these quite well a few days ago, now
> > I get the dreaded message that always makes me shudder: "you have begun
> > to download a file with audio/x-pn-realvideo.  Click on "more info" to
> > learn how to adjust your Netscape capabilities."  I always
> > hit cancel.  If you are using a consistent format, why can I still hear
> > Irina's Hanleni Halsen but not your spoken Denden anymore?
>
> This has been answered.  Again, sorry!