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Mpxplay v1.60 alpha 2 with HTTP and Opus support (Announce)

posted by Mpxplay, 22.12.2012, 21:28

> Minimal test results:
>
> * OPUS playing using DOG/4S and DLL/LE seems to work well (I do get intact
> sound) ... it just crashes after 3 seconds (see ^^^ shot) :-|
Which environment/OS? An emulator? Other files (MOD,DTS,Speex) work properly, only Opus crashes?
Can other people confirm that the Opus crashes in real DOS (with the DOS4G version + Opus dll)?

> * HTTP - how to use it? Not documented at all :-| (with the FTP dialog
> seems not to work)
Yeah, some description is still missing. So:
- FTP has directory (opening with ctrl-'f') and file handling too (filenames begins with ftp://)
- HTTP has only 'file' handling (filenames begins with http://)

So, put the http link on the command line (as input file) or put it in a playlist. If you put it (or more links) in a simple M3U, then Mpxplay will check all http entries by default (like at normal file handling). When all entries are checked, then save this playlist in EXTM3U or CUE format, to avoid this pre-checking next time.
Or you can make/edit manually an EXTM3U list with better/nicer infos than the radio channel gives (streams have automatic playlist-info priority).
btw. Mpxplay reads/uses only the Icy-Name info of the server (which usually means the name of radio channel). It doesn't read any id3-info from the stream. I think so only Ogg can give such infos, but my Ogg demuxer cannot handle metadata/header changes under playing (inside the stream). So this feature is not implemented yet (you can see the name of the radio channel only, the played song is not displayed).

> * MPX tries to read and parse all files in directory ... with FTP it takes
> centuries and no way to abort (???)
Mpxplay is a audio-file player. FTP and HTTP filenames are emulated local files. The servers/net are slow, not Mpxplay. You can use commander mode (press 'E') to disable the audio/file format checking.

I don't see or understand the other problems. All linked test files work at me. (if a file has no audio, Mpxplay will not play it)

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