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