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- @@@STARTPACK(maplay;maplay - MPEG audio player)
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- <P>
- maplay version 1.2 is the second release of my MPEG audio player/decoder.
- It decodes layer I and layer II MPEG audio streams and plays them
- using a CD-quality audio device. Currently supported devices are the
- dbri device of SPARC 10 computers and the audio ports of Silicon
- Graphics Indigo machines. Thanks to Louis P. Kruger (lpkruger@phoenix.
- Princeton.EDU), maplay 1.2 can also use the /dev/dsp device under Linux.
- Louis has tested it with the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 soundcard. Sound Blaster 16
- and Gravis Ultrasound cards should also work, but a bug in the dsp driver
- prevents stereo playback on Gravis Ultrasound cards. An amd device of a
- SPARC 2/IPX/... machine can be used, too, but this device is only capable of
- producing audio output at 8 kHz in u-law format, which sounds like transmitted
- through a telephone. Other audio device are not supported directly, but can be
- used with the "decode to stdout" option and an audio format converter.
- Besides it shouldn't be a problem to adapt the program to other audio devices.
- <P>
- The player supports all modes, which are single channel, stereo,
- joint stereo and dual channel, and all bitrates except free mode.
- The missing free mode support should not be a problem for now,
- because I haven't seen such a stream yet.
- <P>
- maplay needs approximately 46% CPU time on SPARC 10/40 machines and 50%
- on Indigos for realtime stereo playback of a 44.1 kHz 128 kbit/s stream.
- Single channel playback needs about the half CPU time. On a SPARCstation IPX,
- maplay needs about 43% CPU time for realtime mono playback. Stereo playback
- is not possible via an amd device.
- <P>
- Besides realtime playing of audio streams, maplay can decode streams to
- stdout for further conversions. The output consists of 16 bit signed PCM
- values. For stereo streams, the values are interleaved, which means that
- a value for the left channel is followed by a value for the right channel
- and so on. If maplay has been compiled for u-law output, the output consists
- of 8 bit u-law samples at a rate of 8 kHz, no matter what frequency the stream
- uses.
-
- </P>
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- @@@UW2DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/audio/)
- @@@OSR5DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/audio/maplay/)
- @@@SOURCE(ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/multimedia/maplay1.2)
- @@@ENDPACK
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