Netscape audio/basic plugin for SGI / Irix
This is a Netscape plugin handling the audio/basic (also known
as Sun AU8) file format for SGI / Irix. The Irix 6.x Netscape
handled audio/basic already, but in NP_ASFILE mode, that is
the full data has to be loaded in order for the playing to start. This
is reasonable because if the data is delivered by the server to the
Netscape client at a lower rate than the sample playing rate (very
likely), even temporarily because the network freezes, you'll get
unpleasant sound distortions, or even no sound at all.
But there is at least one other context where you want the data
delivered in stream mode, namely when using Netscape as a client for
a videoconferencing system on a local or
throughput-controlled, network. What we do.
If you're interesting in this toy, you can get the binary
here.
To use it, just put it into your ~/.netscape/plugins directory before
launching Netscape (it's linked with SGI's audio library, but
everything should be fine).
You can also get the
sources. See the
README file to compile and install it.
This has been developped in C using Netscape
plugin SDK
for Unix, v3.0b5.
Christophe Tronche, ch.tronche@computer.org