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- CAMP - ClassAct MPEGA Player v 1.0 - by Eric Sauvageau
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-
- 1. About
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-
- CAMP is a small GUI front-end for mpega 2.9+ by Stéphane Tavenard.
- It will let you control virtualy every mpega features from an easy-to-use
- graphical interface, as well as to actualy play the mp2/mp3 file (through
- mpega).
-
- CAMP makes it easy to experiment with different settings for a given
- mp3 file without having to remember the commandline options or doing a
- lot of typing.
-
-
- 2. Requirements
- ---------------
-
- CAMP requires at least Kickstart 2.04 and the ClassAct 2.0 BOOPSI
- gadgets. It also needs Stéphane's mpega located somewhere on your system
- (you can select its path and name in CAMP's preferences).
-
- See the mpega documentation for mpega's own requirements.
-
-
- 3. Usage
- --------
-
- Most options should be pretty obvious, being directly the mpega options.
- The only additional checkbox is "No Output", which will prevent mpega from
- opening a window to send its text output while playing. Just have a look
- at the mpega documentation.
-
- To select the mp2/mp3 file to play, just enter its path and name in
- the "Filename" gadget, or use the button at its right to open a
- filerequester. You can also simply drag the icon over the window.
-
- On the selection of a valid mpega audio file, the information such as
- its type and frequency will be shown in the window's titlebar.
-
- Note that you can quit CAMP while you're still playing an mp2/mp3 file.
-
- Preferences allow you to set the path to your mpega executable, as well
- as saving it and the currently selected options to a peferences file located
- in env:camp.prefs (and envarc:camp.prefs). If you wish to return to the
- default values, just delete these two files (a "Default" button might
- eventualy be added to the prefs window).
-
-
- 4. Hints:
- ---------
- I've managed to play 44 KHz samples (with freq/4) on my 68030 @ 40 MHz
- by doing this:
-
- - Mono Output
- - No Output (disables text output)
- - Freq/4
- - Quality Worse
- - Buffer Time 10000 ms
- - Wait for Buffer
-
-
- 5. Future:
- ----------
- I don't think I'll be developping much further this product, but various
- possibilities are:
-
- - Save the settings in the mp3's filenote, so each mp3 could have its own
- set of options?
-
- - Or, have a playlist saved to disk, with all the required options to
- play every entries?
-
-
- The sources are available, so feel free to play with it. Just drop me
- a note if you do anything useful with it, just interested in knowing
- about it :)
-
-
- 6. Known Problems
- -----------------
-
- - You can't abort mpega by entering Ctrl-C in its output window. Either
- use the "Play/Stop" button in CAMP, or do a "status" in a shell to
- locate the mpega executable, and send it a break <process_num> C
-
- - When playing an mp2/mp3 file at a high priority, there might not be
- enough free CPU for CAMP to acknowledge your click on the Stop button.
- It is advised to either raise CAMP's own task priority beforehand, or
- to avoid using a task priority higher than CAMP's own for mpega.
-
-
- 7. Contact
- ----------
-
- CAMP was put together in a few days at a friend's request (Hi
- Fabian! :). I don't think I'll do more work on it in the future. The
- source code is included, so have a blast.
-
- CAMP is released as Freeware.
-
-
- How to reach me:
-
- Email: merlin@thule.no
- WWW: http://www.thule.no/~merlin/
-
-
- 8. History
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-
- 1.0 - First (and final?) releaes.
-
- 0.1 - 0.5: Beta versions.
-