RealVideo files are installed in the same way, but the file names are different. See the RealServer documentation for more specific information.

If you need the RealAudio/RealVideo compressor software, or need to find out more about compressing sound files, you can find it at RealMedia's Web Site . Please direct all support questions to RealAudio for their software. There is a great deal of information on RealMedia's Web site to help you create the compressed ffiles.

1. Create a subdirectory underneath your top level Web directory. This might be called /audio/ or /ra/.

2. Upload the compressed .ra or .rm files to this directory.

3. Create a text file on your local machine. On Windows, you can use the Notepad editor for this. This is the metafile, and it has the following one line structure. You probably want to name the metafile the same name as the compressed file, with a .ram extension. Make one .ram file for each .ra/.rm file. The .ra/.rm and .ram file names are required.

   For older single rate streaming, use the following:

   pnm://real.fni.com/PATH/FILENAME.ra
      or
   pnm://real.fni.com/PATH/FILENAME.rm

   For the G2 multirate streaming system, you will need to use the following:

   rtsp://real.fni.com/PATH/FILENAME.ra
      or
   rtsp://real.fni.com/PATH/FILENAME.rm

   For HTTP streaming that dows not use the FishNet RealMedia streaming server, you will need to use the following:

   http://real.fni.com/PATH/FILENAME.ra
      or
   http://real.fni.com/PATH/FILENAME.rm

   Due to the way the RealServer works, the domain name must be www.fni.com. This URL is internal and is not something that viewers to your Web site will see.

   NOTE: the PATH portion must be supplied by FishNet, as it depends on where your Web site is in the overall Web tree. You can send email to FishNet to request what to substitute for the PATH portion.

   The FILENAME is whatever you choose to call the file. Note that file names on FishNet are case sensitive.

4. Upload the .ram files to your Web account in the same directory as the .ra/.rm files.

5. Create a link to the metafile from your Web pages. The example below assumes that your RealServer files are in the /audio/ directory, and the hello.ram metafile is to be played.

   <a href="http:/www.yourdomain.org/audio/hello.ram">
   Click here for a personal greeting!
   </a>
   

6. Click and enjoy!

If you have any difficulties with this procedure to install the files on FishNet, please feel free to contact FishNet with further questions.

Autostart RealAudio Files

Including the following example HTML will automatically cause the RA file sound/welcome.rpm to play when the Web page is loaded. Note: some find this a questionable practice and may take offence.

There are many options and variations to how this is done; this is just one example. See the RealServer documentation for more detailed information.

<embed src="sound/welcome.rpm" align="baseline"
border=0 width=0 height=0 autostart=true>