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- Opus MPEGA 3.1 PPC Plug-Ins
- ===========================
- Warning! English translation by http://www.systransoft.com
-
- Introduction
- ------------
- This Plugins for OpusMPEGA 3.1 represents a new graphic user surface
- to be seen as in the enclosed picture. The OpusMPEGA enclosed
- buttonbank is replaced.
-
- Installation
- ------------
- The installation effected with the enclosed install script, doubleclicks
- the Icon Install-English. You can copy alternatively the drawers into
- the directories of the same name of Opus5.
- A query, whether Newicons are installed, does not take place!
- You should install the Newicons package in the newest version
- beforehand, without this are not representable the new GUI!
-
- Call
- ----
- The new GUI is called over the OpusMPEGA appicon with selection of the
- menu option 'Player buttons'. Directly in the Opus5 menu you can call it
- over the point 'button/loading' and selection of the file 'OpusMPEGA_image'.
- The call can be merged also into the Opus5 user menu or any Opus5 button
- bank. In the function editor then the following line is to be input:
- - LoadButtons OpusMPEGA_image
-
- Usage
- -----
- In the upper series 7 buttons are, with the following functions:
-
- -ADD Button
- Selects one or more mp3 audio Songs in a Opus5-Lister. With operation
- of this Buttons these are transferred to the OpusMPEGA playerlister and
- added to possibly available entries.
- If no playerlister is available, this is first opened. Music playback
- starts automatically.
- If OpusMPEGA does not run at all yet (no Appicon), it over the Button
- started.
-
- -Abort Button
- A current playback is aborted. Subsequently, the Playerlister is closed.
- All selections or entries are lost.
-
- -Stop Button
- A current playback is aborted.
- The Playerlister window remains opened.
-
- -Play Button
- Playback is continued with the aborted title.
-
- - Previous Button
- Like the name already says, playback with the previous title is continued.
- If playback still runs, this is beforehand aborted.
-
- -NEXT Button
- Exact as before, only in reverse.
-
- -Quit Button
- Like the abort button. Additionally OpusMPEGA is terminated, which Appicon
- likewise removed.
-
- The underlying symbols are likewise selectable, and offer the
- following functions:
-
- -Opus Icon
- Information window to OpusMPEGA call. Here you can call the adjustments
- and the Guide.
-
- -Cassette symbol
- Thereby is opened a Filerequester, where you can select a mp3 file directly.
- If the Applications Icon should not be represented (Opus MPEGA is not started
- yet), beforehand the ADD Button is to be clicked!
-
- -MP3 symbol
- To the Song at the moment playing are output possibly available mp3 day
- information in a Requester. Additionally or for mp2 Songs information to
- the playtime, compression, samplerate etc. are output.
-
-
- Background information
- ----------------------
- If you look at yourself the plug-ins more near, you will determine the
- this a normal graphic Opus5 button bank explain. The graphic user
- surface is from 14! Newicons assembled. Each of the 14 fields, which
- represents a button, calls the arexx script defined in the function
- editor. Exception is the ADD Button, this calls the internal Opus5
- instruction.
-
- If you can serve the Opus5 buttonbank editor, and over a paint program,
- can you order any new GUI create itself. You find some suggestions for
- it on the OpusMPEGA homepage (Plug-ins PAGE). If you have to offer own
- ideas, suggestions or finished pictures, you can perpetuate this in the
- guest book!
-
- OpusMPEGA
- ---------
- This Opusmodul implements a complete MPEG audio player with own playing window.
- Displays appicon, opens a new lister, shows the runtime on a progressbar and
- a timecounter. The functions play and stop, next or previous title, load,
- quit and cancel are available with the graphic button bank like a CD player.
-
- Supports the MPEGA player by Stéphane Tavenard, PPCMpegPlayer for PPC boards,
- MPEG cards Melody & Peggy plus, and all sound cards with AHI audio system.
- DOpus5-filetypes for MPEG Layer-2, MPEG Layer-3 and Wave MPEG Layer-3 included
-
- Scriptes localized (include deutsch, english, dansk, français,
- italiano, nederlands, norsk, suomi & svenska catalog).
-
- Author
- ======
- OpusMPEGA 3.1 ©1995-98 by Eckhard Ludwig
- Homepage: http://opusmpega.home.pages.de
- EMail: Eckhard@top.east.de
-
- Requirements
- ============
- -Directory Opus V5.5, Directory Opus Magellan recommended
- -mpega V3.3 or later (©1997 by Stéphane Tavenard)
- -optional PPCMpegPlayer for a PowerUP compatible system with ppc.library
-
- Distribution
- ------------
- OpusMPEGA and plug-ins is Freeware!
- If you find this program useful, then send me a email.
-