Subj : Updating Ogg Plug-in
To : ALL
From : DAVID DURGEE
Date : Sun Mar 23 2003 08:21 am
Ogg Vorbis for OS/2 was released last July. It includes a plug-in for
PM123 that is now supported by Dink's z! player as well. This plug-in,
unfortunately, does not support streaming and thus cannot be used to
listen to Ogg broadcasts on the web. Dink has indicated that he will not
fix the plug-in to support streaming. Brian Havard, the Ogg porter,
appears to have no interest or lacks the time to fix the plug-in. The
creator of the plug-in, Sofiya, has not responded to my e-mail so I assume
he is making no further changes to the plug-in.
Would someone here consider adding streaming support to the plug-in? The
source code for the plug-in is here:
http://www.din.or.jp/~sofiya/soft/OggPlug.tar.bz2
As the program ogg123.exe provided with Ogg vorbis for OS/2 supports
streaming the source for this program should include all the needed source
to add this support to the plug-in. This source should be available from:
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download.html
If you need it the Ogg Vorbis for OS/2 binary is available at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/convert/oggvorbis-1.0-os2.zip
Quoting from the Readme.OS2 in the above binary about OggPlay.dll:
>oggplay.dll is a plugin for PM123 written by Sofiya <
[email protected]>
>that I've tweaked a bit & built from the source code available from
>
http://www.din.or.jp/~sofiya/soft/soft_e.html
Perhaps if you contact Brian and indicate that you are working on the
plug-in he will let you know what the above mentioned "tweaks" are.
If I were a "c" programmer I would take a look at this myself, but I lack
the experience and time to become one in order to do so. Anyone out there
interested?
-- Dave
... Computer Hacker wanted. Must have own axe.
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