Adding streaming support to OggPlay.dll
m...@privacy.net
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 <sof...@din.or.jp>
>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
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Max
> 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
I emailed the author of PM123 about the lack of OggVorbis support in
Pm123 in december 2002...
He said that in this summer he'd upgrade Pm123..
I contacted again him some days ago, but no answer at all....
max
Max
finally i've an answer from Samuel..
probably there will be an update of Pm123 in August, but unfortunately
he has no plans to support ogg vorbis :-(
max
Gilberto F da Silva
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Dave Yeo
FFplay, not to mention our old browsers support it fine. And as a
standby for local files, there's the old double click the ogg vorbis
file and it plays, no streaming from the OS though, still nice to play
it from the folder, which acquires the media controls when doing so.
Dave