Nicks OS/2 Mpeg Audio and Ogg Vorbis Encoding Page

Information

Mpeg

• I've compiled the new Lame beta 3.88, which can be downloaded from below. I've stopped using lame, and gone over to Ogg Vorbis. As such, I'm no longer compiling the new versions. Someone else is, check hobbes.
• On the mp2 front, I've compiled TooLame 02i for OS2, again available for download below. This is the latest version as of dec 2001.
• I've done a new readme.os2 for Lame 3.88, which covers the TERM errors a few people have been getting.

Vorbis

• RC 3 is now out, and as usual Brian has compiled it with his Dart support, so its as snazy as ever. Grab a copy from Brian's Site.
• RC 2 has now been released, and Brian has done a pile of changes so as to make everything run on os2 (oggenc, ogg123 etc). Grab a copy from Brian's Site.
• Previously, I'd compiled most of Vorbis Beta 3. Playback is via a simple command line utility. Also included is the development stuff for Vorbis Beta 3 for emx (libraries and include files).
• I've also got an older port of the vorbis tools and examples for os/2, based on the 09/09/2000 release. It includes oggenc, and a simple way to play ogg files using vorbisfile_example and a package called devaudio.
• Note that the versions provided here are more for historical reasons than any other, and shouldn't really be used if you are an end user. You'll be wanting Brian's site for your normal ogg vorbis OS/2 downloads.

Links

Lame mp3 encoder project - http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/

TooLame mp2 encoder project - http://www.cryogen.com/mikecheng

Ogg Vorbis - http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis
Other Ogg Substreams - http://www.xiph.org/ogg/index.html
Brians OS/2 Ogg Vorbis Page - http://silk.apana.org.au/vorbis/

New Downloads

Compiling

To compile Lame and Toolame for OS/2, I used EMX 0.9d, Bash, Sed, gnu-make, gnu-grep and a few other tools. For toolame, you also need gcrt0.o, as it doesn't ship with emx. If you are interested in creating your own build environment, let me know and I'll tell you what I'm using at the moment. To compile vorbis, I mostly just prodded configure till it worked, and commented out code that didn't compile (highly technical). If you're looking to compile it on a more standard emx build system, I'd advise using the source on Brians page (http://silk.apana.org.au/vorbis/), though I'll happly zip and email you my build directories if you want them!

Playback

Once you've made your mp3s / vorbis's, you'll need someway to play them back. The main contenders (IMHO), are all avaiable from hobbes in http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players.

• PM123 (1.1 Beta 4) - Very good player, my PM player of choice. A Vorbis plugin is available on Brians site.
• War Amp (Beta 4) - Quite good, no plugins or skins, less stable than PM123, and less VBR support. What I used until PM123 v1.1
• MPG123 (0.59r6) - Command Line player of choice, make sure you use -C
• Ogg123 - Command line Ogg Vorbis player using DART. Available on Brian's Site.

Nick - Gagravarr@Softhome.net