home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!sandman.lerc.nasa.gov!drich
- From: drich@sandman.lerc.nasa.gov (Daniel Rich)
- Subject: xcdplayer-2.2 - X11 CD player for Sun and SGI
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.225700.11146@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: news@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov
- Nntp-Posting-Host: sandman.lerc.nasa.gov
- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:57:00 GMT
- Lines: 37
-
- I have posted the latest release of XCdplayer to alt.sources. The current
- version will now run on SGI and Sun, and has a set of color defaults.
- With the SGI version, you also gain the ability to play through either
- the CDROM drive audio jack, or through the SGI audio board (for those
- systems so equiped). This has been tested on both IRIX 4.0.2 and
- 4.0.5, and will *NOT* work on 4.0.1 (apparently, there are problems
- with the audio libraries).
-
- Things to look for in future releases:
- o Motif support (I hope!)
- o Record capibilities (on SGI only)
- o Track and Artist labeling
- o A better programming interface
- o AIX and Ultrix support (maybe....)
-
- For more information, take a look at the man page and README file. If
- you do run into problems or know of any other features you would like to
- see (or implement, for that matter :-), please let me know.
-
- Here is the description from the man page:
- Xcdplayer is a graphical user interface for controlling the Sun or SGI cdrom
- drive under the X Window System. It provides visual feedback and
- gives the user facilities for mode selection, device control, scanning, and
- programming.
-
- Xcdplayer allows previously stored cd title and program information to
- be read from a specified directory and loaded into the player on startup
- or at disc changes. This directory can be specified either on the command
- line, by using the -cdInfoDir option, by using a customized personal resource
- file, or by setting the environment variable XCDINFODIR.
-
- --
- Dan Rich | drich@lerc.nasa.gov | (216) 433-4000
- Sr. Systems Engineer | "Danger, you haven't seen the last of me!"
- RMS Technologies, Inc. | "No, but the first of you turns my stomach!"
- NASA Lewis Research Center | -- The Firesign Theatre's Nick Danger
-
-