[gopher] Gopher Live Stream Demonstration

[Iain R. Learmonth]

> > Tested in OmniWeb, it seems it just keeps eating the data and never renders it.
> How long did you run OmniWeb for?

About 5 minutes. I left it running while I was trying it in lynx.

> I'm guessing Firefox would probably handle MJPG pretty well. I've got
> a reference MJPG generator written, I just need to hook it into
> Gopher. I think I'll do that tonight.
> 

The problem I think is that MJPEG relies on MIME being understood to detect boundaries in the stream. AFAIK, there's no way to communicate a MIME type through Gopher. Loading the data into a stream is easy. The trick is going to be doing it in a way that makes sense for Gopher.

> >
> > I might look into setting something up on gopher://aucs.co/1/ at some point this week. I have no idea how I would go about a client, but I'll set up a server with one of the feeds I run at http://www.room205.org/live.php.
> I'd like to see that. Just a guess: you could just wget to dump the
> feed out to Gopher.

I think the first experiment will consist of an HTML page with a still and a meta refresh tag. That's nice and simple and makes sure I've got something happening that I can say works.

Gopher has an item type for GIF. I wonder if GIFs can be streamed. That would work maybe.

As a side, sorry if you went to check out the webcam on that page and were disappointed. It's 2am here so there's nothing to see but a dark empty room.

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Iain R. Learmonth <irl at sdf.org>