Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/19/12:45:38
Hallo,
> I'd love to be able to play mp3 files as background music.
Indeed thats exactly what i wanted to do, i am in the process of making a
routine which will play an mp3 as background in my _ahem_ 'game'. :)
>I've found some routines that play mp3's on gcc for unix. I'm not a
low-level
> programmer whatsoever so I wouldn't know where to start on converting
> the source. I'd also have no idea as to how to make it compatible with
> allegro. If anyone can help I'd really appriciate it, and if there's
> already a solution to this problem I'd be glad to know it :)
You're in luck, Ove Kaaven has ported AMP to DJGPP/ALLEGRO (DOSAMP), and
made a library out of it :) you can d/l this package at:
http://www.arcticnet.no/~ovek/files/
Its a very good library, comes with a good example and is fairly easy to
understand! not to mention Ove's kind help which he has given me on a
number of occasions :).
If you need a further example/help try my site
(http://www.btinternet.com/~rossa/) where i have made a very simple MSDOS
mp3 player, complete w/DJGPP source. Er don't take it seriously as a proper
MP3 player tho, heh.
> Mp3's are the most compact files for their quality, and there's no real
> point in hiding the code since WinAMP is free and does a great job.
Indeed they are, the code isn't hidden and i believe the mpeg decoder AMP
(ftp://ftp.rasip.fer.hr/pub/mpeg/) by Tomislav Uzelac is free.
Rossa :)
at
Rossa AT BTinternet DOT com
The start of my site :
http://www.btinternet.com/~rossa/
Brian Hogg <bhogg AT worldchat DOT com> wrote in article
<34C297C0 DOT 4D5C9719 AT worldchat DOT com>...
> I'd love to be able to play mp3 files as background music. I've found
> some routines that play mp3's on gcc for unix. I'm not a low-level
> programmer whatsoever so I wouldn't know where to start on converting
> the source. I'd also have no idea as to how to make it compatible with
> allegro. If anyone can help I'd really appriciate it, and if there's
> already a solution to this problem I'd be glad to know it :)
>
> Mp3's are the most compact files for their quality, and there's no real
> point in hiding the code since WinAMP is free and does a great job.
>
> Please e-mail me if you can help..
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
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