Streaming Real Media Audio & Video

Here are instructions for preparing RealAudio or RealVideo files for use on the Web.

1. Copy your encoded files (files with the .ra, .ram, .rm or .rpm extension) to your World Wide Web server.
2. Use a text editor (such as Notepad or SimpleText) to create a metafile containing a URL to your file. For example, the contents of your metafile should be in the following form: http://hostname/path, where hostname is the name of your World Wide Web server. For example: www.real.com
3. Save your metafile as a text using a .ram file extension.
4. In your HTML document, reference the metafile in a hyperlink. For example: <A HREF="filename.ram">
   <A HREF="http://hostname/file.rm"> You can use relative or complete paths. If you use complete paths, you must include both the hostname and the complete path. For example: <A HREF="http://www.real.com/home/welcome.ram">
5. When a user clicks on the link, the streaming file(s) begin to download. The RealPlayer begins playing after a few seconds; it does not need to wait for the entire file to be downloaded.