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Albatros Media Player
written by norbert heller (email: heller1@ibm.net)
The purpose was to have a single player for all file formats instead of
having a player for every file format as supplied in OS/2
Now there is a Media Player which should play the following file formats:
- MODule Formats (those "Amiga Thingies") - description see below
- AVI (both OS/2 and Windows (with Andreas Portele's WINAVI codecs))
- MPEG 1 (just the movies, no sound)
- FLC / FLI |
- WAV |
- VOC | we already know that from os/2
- MID |
FIRST DO THIS:
Of course you need the OS/2 MMPM/2 installed !
IF YOU WANT TO USE THE DART MODE to play mod files :
There are two files needed to run this player which can be found on DEVCON 8
Currently the only known source is the DevCons CD's. The DLL's are located on disk 3, in
the directory
\toolkits\warptlkt\toolkit\beta\samples\entoolkt\audio\daudio\AMPMXMCD.DLL
\toolkits\warptlkt\toolkit\beta\samples\entoolkt\audio\daudio\AUDIOSH.DLL
These dlls must be used to replace the existing mmpm dlls, see the readme
file in that directory for more information.
just copy these two files into your
/mmos2/dll
directory (make a backup of your old files first). You do not have to reboot!
Now you are ready to play files ...
HOW TO PLAY A FILE :
Simply open your drives object, find a MOD file (any of the below formats), then
drag&drop it onto the main display (the black square)
The rest is pretty simple :
- select sample rate from the options first, then volume (the buttons next to "mute") then press play
DESCRIPTION OF THE MODULE FORMATS :
A Module, in this sense, is a music file format that stores both digital
instruments and note information. Unlike MIDI files which are soly note
information and WAV files which are a single digital instrument. Modules
use a technique known as Wave Table Synthesis or Digital Mixing for play
back. A more advanced, but similar system is used in most of today's
synthesisers.
The result is a reproduction identical to what the original author intended
and unlike a digitial recording the size does not grow very large for
long songs. A 30 minute song could easily be a mear 300k. Almost all
of the space in a module file is used by the instruments.
SUPPORTED MOD FORMATS :
* 4 Channel, 15 Samples NoiseTracker
* 4 Channel, 15 Samples NoiseTracker, ProTracker, SoundTracker etc.
* XM Modules from Fasttracker 4,6,8,16 and 32 Channel FastTracker
* STM Modules from Scream Tracker 2.x
* S3M Modules from Scream Tracker 3.x
* MTM Modules from MultiTracker 1.x
* ULT Modules from UltraTracker
SOME GOOD FTP SITES FOR MOD FILES ARE:
kosmic.wit.com /kosmic/songs
ftp.cdrom.com /demos/music/songs/199?/S3M
/demos/music/disks
/.21/demos/music/songs/1995/mtm
REPORTS :
mail me anything :
- wishlists, likes/dislikes, appreciations, registrations, bugs
to
heller1@ibm.net
WHAT NOT TO DO :
- this version of the program ALBATROS MP is not to be :
- sold for any money
- put on any CD ROM
norbert heller (feb 22th 1996)