I hope someone can point me in the right direction. I have been retrieving files from various internet sites with no difficulty for a long time, using lynx, or ftp, or lately using wget. Until recently all the files I have ever needed have hae either "http:" or "ftp:" as their protocol prefixes, and when that has been the case, it has not mattered what the file type was - tgz, html, txt, rm, mp3, whatever. With the advent of trplayer however, I have noticed other protocol prefixes on files I wish to download, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it. They are sound files (ending in .rm or .ra) and the prefixes are "pnm:" and "rtsp:". I can play such files fine while online, but I would like to retrieve them in some cases to have a local copy. Are there any tools or tricks that I am overlooking to download files whose URL begins with pnm: or rtsp:? I recently upgraded my old system to a shiny new one here, and in the process I broke my vsound program. Vsound worked like a charm on the old system and allowed me to play the kinds of files I am talking about and convert them into .wav files on my local system. From there I could make them into mp3 files. However, on my faster machine, Slackware 7.1 instead of 4.0, an sblive card instead of an awe64, the latest alsa drivers instead of the older version 4.1, vsound is a disaster. Erik Di Castro tried like the dickens to duplicate my difficulty but was unable to. He configured his system very nearly like my own except he retained his OSS drivers and not alsa drivers, but was unable to make vsound misbehave. He concluded that my alsa drivers are at fault. Aside from fixing vsound, I cannot think of another way to retrieve those files. Any ideas would be appreciated. Chuck PS - If the answer to this question is illegal (i.e. if I am not supposed to have copies of such files) write to me privately - I will never tell! My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -- Winston Churchill
