Does Netscape support real-time, on the fly decoding of audio or video files?
Yes. The X Windows version of Netscape can download a file in two ways: wait until the entire file is there and then launch the external “viewer” or, launch the viewer and send data to the viewer as it arrives from the network. For audio and video files this means that you can listen to them and watch them as they arrive from the Internet. So, if you have a program on your X platform that can accept streaming audio input, it can be used with Netscape to play audio directly off the network. Check out our sample mailcap for SGI to see how streaming audio is configured.
