# Switch to agent mode
One striking characteristic of Gelidium is that it must be wild-harvested rather than farmed. Unlike Gracilaria for culinary agar production, Gelidium grows slowly and thrives only in cold, turbulent waters over rocky seabeds, conditions nearly impossible to replicate in aquaculture. This dependence on wild harvesting explains the need for seaweed collectors during WWII, and continues to make Gelidium a strategically critical resource.
，详情可参考夫子
For our purposes, we don’t even need to chase it all the way to raw PCM which is valid avenue albeit in the realm of WEBRips and not defacto “downloaders.” We just need to find the last point in the pipeline where data is still accessible to JavaScript and that point is the MediaSource Extensions API, specifically the SourceBuffer.appendBuffer() method.
Additional reporting by Danielle Kaye and Pritti Mistry