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Streaming Media - RealAudio / RealVideo / MP3

Adding streaming RealAudio/RealVideo site content

All accounts support RealMedia (RealAudio and RealVideo) files via HTTP streaming. Also known as "pseudo-streaming," HTTP streaming provides virtually unlimited streaming of RealAudio and RealVideo files over HTTP. Follow these simple instructions to add streaming RealMedia content to your web page:

1. Creating a .rm RealAudio file using a RealEncoder
   
   Create a .rm file using a RealNetworks tool or or CoolEdit 2000. CoolEdit 2000 is shareware and available at the Syntrillium website.
   
   
2. Create a .ram file
   
   Use a standard text editor such as Notepad and type in the full URL where the .rm file will be placed, for example:
   
   http://www.yourdomain.com/yourfile.rm
   
   Note: The URL above must include "http://".
   
   Save this text file with the extension .ram instead of .txt.
   
   Upload both the .rm and .ram files to your account. Assuming you named the .rm file "yourfile.rm", the .ram file should be named "yourfile.ram", and should be located in the same directory. Make sure to upload the .rm file in binary mode and the .ram file in ASCII mode.
   
   
3. Linking the RealAudio file to your page
   
   Link the .ram file to any button or text link you specify on your page. When a visitor clicks on this link, the RealPlayer program starts. Upon spawning the player, the RealPlayer program reads the location of the RealAudio/RealVideo .rm file from the .ram file. The player then accesses and plays the file as it is being downloaded, in real time.

For more information, please visit the RealAudio web site.

Adding streaming MP3 Audio site content

Adding a streaming MP3 Audio file is easy:

1. Create/convert sounds to MP3 format
   
   To convert files to MP3 format you can use Syntrillium's CoolEdit 2000 (shareware).
   
   
2. Link
   
   Upload the MP3 file and link it directly just as you would another HTML page.
   
   If on the client side an application supporting MP3 is installed (i.e. Windows MediaPlayer, QuickTime, WinAmp, RealPlayer etc.) the real-time streaming will start automatically. Xenoplanet's web servers are optimized to sustain a constant data stream also under heavy load.