Thanks David,
   Just successfully tried it at home on Realplayer 10.5 on xp,  so hiho hiho
it's off to work i go to see if it is a blocked port or something. 
Persons-in-th-know, may I assume that since it was being tested at 8:30 last
night, it was not a traffic-shaping limitation?  V

> Good Evening, Victor,
> 
>     I'm at home, but clicking on that link from my home Mac running OS X 
> starts Firefox with that URL, then starts up a separate RealPlayer 
> instance and displays the video.  Doing the same thing on the same 
> machine running Fedora 8 (PPC) starts MoviePlayer, but nothing displays 
> -- likely a problem with MoviePlayer rather than the link or Firefox.
> 
>     That won't help you much except to say that the link is OK.  And 
> http: gets the video started.
> 
>     Haven't seen the .rpm suffix (except on Redhat Package Manager 
> libraries), but .ram does start RealMedia.  If you can find a .ram file 
> from some library to FTP down to your desktop system, you might try that 
> to see if your install of RealMedia plays it correctly.
> 
>     I wouldn't think this is a network or firewall problem, but I'm 
> copying Lynne just to get her thoughts.
> 
>     I can't help much beyond saying that the link works.  Can't try from 
> the office until later tomorrow morning as I start early out of the 
> office.  But if you don't get it resolved by noon, I should be able to 
> try from the office by then.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> Victor Rossi wrote:
> > One of our classrooms is being used to host a MIT_Alum livecast 
> > tomorrow evening [thur].
> >
> >  We were given a url to test the connection/firewall which seems to go 
> > nowhere:
> >
> > http://web.mit.edu/webcast/50k/2007/mit-100k-finals-16may2007-220k.ram
> >
> >  The broadcast link is Broadband (RealMedia 8 or later) & apparently 
> > the .rpm suffix means a RealAudioMetafile.
> >
> > This is a little confusing.  Apparently, the .ram  suffix means files 
> > that launch a RealAudio player as an application *external* to the Web 
> > browser & a .rpm suffix refs files that launch RealAudio player as a 
> > plug-in application *within* the Web browser?
> >
> > Also, from what I can tell the prefix should be RTSP://  for Real Time 
> > Streaming Protocol instead of HTTP://
> >
> > Does anyone have any insights or experience with this?
> >
> >
> > -V
> >
> > refs:
> >
>
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/realone/ProductionGuide/HTML/htmfiles/extensn.htm
> 
> >
> > http://www.uth.tmc.edu/scriptorium/howto/ra-training/using-ra.html
>