Update from Markus Kurek in PR pkg/9501.
Major changes from 0.90 are:
- Optimisations and restructuring of major components of the encoding
process - 34% faster on a K6-2 350!
- Fixed bug with crashes producing mono mp3's from stereo input.
- Fixed bug with bad-sounding mono mp3's.
filename has no indication of the version number. Until then, all I can
do is update the package tarball's checksum.
I hope to hear from the author soon about versioning the tarball to make
life easier here. In the meantime, I'm just going to have to delete the
tarball from ftp.netbsd.org ...
the build, and links with the libffm libm replacement for alpha.
160kbit encode without libffm: 3:44
160kbit encode with libffm : 2:03
VBR=4 encode without libffm : 9:12
VBR=4 encode with libffm : 4:39
for each of the continuation lines, rather than using backslashes to
continue a single, long definition. This makes it much easier to spot
pre-requisite packages and other dependencies.
* audio_solaris.c: Don't spit warnings if /dev/audio doesn't
exist. User probably knows he doesn't have a sound card.
* esdlib.c (esd_connect_tcpip): Fix case in which user specifies
only a port number (first character of host is :)
- Two new playmodes... loop and random.
- Continous play has been fixed, it does not crash eMixer anymore, also
the user has better control of it.
- A bias meter has been included, you can tell how many times you have
played a song.
- The total number of tracks on your playlist is now displayed.
* Libtoolize build.
* Teach rplay to look for libedit readline emulation if it exists.
* Add dependency on rx-1.5.
Changes since rplay 3.3.1:
* Added devrplay.so which can be used with LD_PRELOAD to add rplay support
to audio applications use /dev/dsp. devrplay is known to work with rvplayer,
xmp, mpg123, freeamp, s3mod, esd (Enlightenment Sound Daemon) and even
rplayd itself. devrplay.so should be installed in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Example usage:
bash$ LD_PRELOAD=devrplay.so rvplayer
bash$ LD_PRELOAD=devrplay.so /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rvplayer/rvplayer
bash$ LD_PRELOAD=devrplay.so dd if=/foo/bar/sound.wav of=/dev/dsp
bash$ LD_PRELOAD=devrplay.so xxmp sound.mod
bash$ LD_PRELOAD=devrplay.so mpg123 sound.mp3
tcsh users will probably need to `setenv LD_PRELOAD devrplay.so; command'
instead of using the `LD_PRELOAD=devrplay.so command' syntax.
devrplay has only been tested on Linux, but it should be possible to
get it working on other systems.
* Added rptp "set" command. This can be used to set rplayd
variables. One important use of this is to set the audio-close
variable. Examples:
Tell rplayd to close the audio device:
$ rptp set audio-close 1
Tell rplayd *not* to close the audio device:
$ rptp set audio-close 0
* Added rplayd monitor support which allows rptp clients to monitor
audio data that is written to the audio device. rptp clients can
now issue the "monitor" command to start receiving audio data.
One use of this feature is to pipe the audio data to a program
for visual display.
* rptp includes support for GNU readline and also displays progress
information when doing get, put, and monitor.
* Fixed several potential rplayd buffer overflows.
Changes since rplay 3.2:
* Improved Linux support, including playing sounds directly
from ATAPI CDROM. Tested with the following:
Linux 2.0.34
Debian 2.0
ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 6) (3.1)
TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1502B, ATAPI CDROM drive
This also includes a new --audio-fragsize rplayd option. See
README.linux for more information.
* Support for external helper applications used to convert
unsupported audio formats. Helpers can be configured to
support formats such as MPEG (using mpg123), modules
(using xmp), and any other format that can be converted
using a stdin -> stdout filter.
* --fork and --no-fork rplayd options. When not in debug or inetd
mode, rplayd will fork to put itself in the background.
* rplayd is now installed in $prefix/sbin/rplayd instead of
$prefix/bin/rplayd.
* Running rplayd from inetd now requires the --inetd option.
* --enable-rplayd-user=USER and --enable-rplayd-group=GROUP
configure options.
* --user=USER and --group=GROUP rplayd options.
* Lots of bug fixes.
CD-DA extraction tool with excessive data corrections,
such as jitter, loss of data, etc.
This will soon be obsoleted by cdparanoia IV, I hope....
Most SCSI/ATAPI CD-ROM drives should work fine.
However, the ATAPI stuff is totally untested, and
if it happened to work, it was a miracle. :-)
Currently,
- the feature to search for CD-ROM device is not
implemented and the -g option is required,
- the libraries are not installed.
+ add -li386, and a check to make sure that root is running the program
(for obvious reasons)
+ add a small shell script to find the lpt port easily
Initialisation of flash RAM on the rio is slow, but upload works quite
well and fast. Not yet tested with external flash media.
