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Support Area: Real Audio/Video

Streaming RealAudio and Video files:

You can store your clips anywhere in your domain account under the "www" folder or below. To access the clip and stream it, you must create a ".ram" file which gives the server instructions on where your clip is located and how to stream it. The .ram file is simply a text file with an absolute URL to the clip (you can use NotePad to create it or your File Manager tool in the Control Center). This URL will need to be along the lines of:

http://full.domain.name/directory/filename.rm

The above address goes in the .ram file, not in your HTML code. Your HTML code calls the .ram file. Then the .ram file is used to call up the realmedia clip file. So for example, your HTML code would look something like this:

"<a href="http://musicforyou.com/ra/music.ram">Click here to listen to music.></a>

HTTP streaming versus PNM streaming

We utilize HTTP streaming for our RealMedia clips. This has the following differences from using PNM streaming: