playing audio

[molly2ka]

hi all,

i'm trying to play audio retrieved from a mysql database in a web browser. Now i've tried it on internet explorer on windows and it works fine, the audio file is downloaded from the database and opens in real player. I tried the same script on netscape in unix and it doesn't work. It says that sox is not found which is a program to convert the file to a certain type. Does anyone know how i can specify which audio device i wish the audio file to open with in netscape possibly through html? or just how i can get the damn thing playing!!

Manni

 

[BabyJeffy]

I'm guessing that this is a configuration issue with the web browser in question. I don't use unix, but I would imagine that, like browsers in the other operating systems, Netscape for unix allows you to configure helper applications. This is something you configure using the Preferences options in most browsers (to configure the helper apps).

As far as I know, there is no way you can change the helper application that Netscape attempts to launch when it receives a specific file type (with correct headers).

Jeff