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June 30

Advanced Multimedia for OS/2 Warp

For anyone interested in the ability to play multiple multimedia formats with OS/2 Warp, I'd like to draw your attention to a great little utility called QuickView for DOS.

Yes, that's right -- DOS! (Which means it runs beautifully under OS/2 Warp, of course.)

You can get QuickView for DOS (shareware evaluation copy) by visiting:

http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/

and also find out more about licensing QuickView source code. (Perhaps someone would like to develop a native player and/or plug-in? :-))

QuickView runs in a full screen DOS session, and for best results you'll need to make sure you have an audio adapter which supports SoundBlaster-type audio in DOS sessions. You should also follow the instructions in the QuickView documentation to change the DOS session's settings.

Here's a list of the multimedia formats supported by QuickView for DOS:

Video formats:
.AVI: Sound can be either PCM, Microsoft ADPCM, IMA ADPCM, A-law, u-law,
GSM 6.10 and Audio MPEG incl. MP3.
.MOV: Sound can be "raw", "twos", A-law, u-law, IMA ADPCM or GSM 6.10.
Supported video codecs for AVI and MOV:
Cinepak [cvid] (8 and 24 bit)
CLJR [cljr] (24 bit)
Creative Video Blaster [cyuv] (16 bit)
DIB (4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit)
Indeo(tm) 3.1, 3.2 and 5 [IV31, IV32 and IV50] (24 bit)
I420 (24 bit)
IYUV (24 bit)
Motion JPEG [MJPG] (24 bit)
MS Video 1 [msvc] (8 and 16 bit)
OpenDivX [divx] (24 bit, requires MMX)
QPEG [QPEG] (V1.0 and 1.1, 8 bit)
Rainbow Runner [dmb1] (24 bit)
RLE (8 bit)
Ultimotion (OS/2 AVIs) [ULTI] (16 bit)
VYUY (24 bit)
Y41P (24 bit)
V422 (24 bit)
YUY2 (24 bit)
YV12 (24 bit)
YVU9 (24 bit)
Apple codecs:
Animation [rle] (1, 4, 8, 16 and 24 bit)
BMP [WRLE] (4, 8 and 24 bit)
Component [YUV2] (24 bit)
Graphics [smc] (8 bit)
JPEG [jpeg] (24 bit)
Motion JPEG A [MJPA] (24 bit)
None [raw] (4, 8 and 24 bit)
Planar RGB [8BPS] (grayscale, 8, 24 and 32 bit)
Video [rpza] (16 bit, only HiColor Playback)
.DL: Versions 1,2 and partly 3
.CEL (Original Animator CEL Files),
.FLC,
.FLI
.GIF animations
.MPG, .M1V, .MPE, .MPV and .DAT: MPEG 1 video files.
DAT files are files from the VideoCD that are usually named AVSEQ01.DAT and so on.
VideoCDs and CD-i (partly) are supported using the -VCD command.
Picture formats:
.BMP:
uncompressed: 1, 4, 8, 16 and 24 color bits
RLE compressed: 4 and 8 color bits
including OS/2 bitmaps
furthermore all kindred formats:
.RLE, .DIB, .BGA, .VGA, .RLE, .RL4, .RL8
.GIF:1-8 color bits, GIF 87a and GIF 89a extensions
.JPG,
.JIF,
.JPE:Baseline and Progressive JPEG, with grayscale, YCrCb or RGB color space.
.PCX:1-4, 8 and 24 color bits
.TGA:
uncompressed: 8, 15, 16 and 24 color bits, black ~white
RLE compressed: 8, 15, 16 and 24 color bits, black ~white
Sound formats:
.MP1,
.MP2,
.MP3: Audio MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5, Layer 1,2 and 3
.VOC:
.WAV: Supported audio codecs are:
PCM
Microsoft ADPCM
IMA ADPCM
Creative Labs ADPCM
A-law
u-law
GSM 6.10
MPEG Audio

It looks like QuickView's authors are tracking the OpenDivX code pretty closely, so perhaps someday we'll have a DOS DVD player. :-)
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Timothy F. Sipples
IBM WebSphere ~Business Connect Software (Chicago, IL) and
IBM Consultant to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (Wash., DC)

June 30

Great Wireless Deal: IBM CDPD Modem $29.95

For OS/2 Warp "road warriors," here's a great deal.

The IBM PCMCIA CDPD wireless data modem is available from PC Surplus Online (http://www.pcsurplusonline.com) for just $29.95 plus shipping.

This modem uses the same 19.2 Kbps North American wireless data network as the Palm Omnisky products. You can find a wireless CDPD Internet service provider by visiting:

http://wireless.cnet.com/cgi/WRPListing.asp?ptable=Wireless_ISPs

Some providers offer unlimited nationwide wireless Internet access through the CDPD network (where coverage is available).

OS/2 Warp driver support for this IBM CDPD modem is available here:

http://www.networking.ibm.com/prodguide/wireless.html#cell

Also can be used for analog cellular voice communications.

It's not the lightest CDPD solution on the market, but it's certainly one of the least expensive.
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Timothy F. Sipples
IBM WebSphere ~Business Connect Software (Chicago, IL) and
IBM Consultant to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (Wash., DC)

June 30

PMView 2.30 is released

The following features are new in PMView 2000 v2.30:

1.SFF (Structured Fax File) file format support (read/write)

2.Playback of Animated GIF files

3.OS/2 High Memory Support (HMS). Previous versions of PMView were limited to handling approx. 300 MB of memory. The added HMS support in this version will let PMView handle up to 3072 MB provided that the VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT parameter is set accordingly in CONFIG.SYS.

The following bugs and problems are fixed in PMView 2000 v2.30:

1.File Sequencer: Using PgUp/PgDn in PMView's main window when the most recently viewed file has been deleted may cause PMView to crash.

2.Printing: When the print unit is set to inches or millimeters the minimum printable size is restricted to 1 inch or 1 millimeter respectively.

3.File Open/Save dialogs: Pressing the left mouse button on a file and moving the mouse pointer to select files does not work correctly unless the CTRL key is pressed. (Pressing the CTRL key gives a different behavior so it does not provide a solution to the problem).

http://www.pmview.com/
--
Stephan E. Bucher, Dr. sc. nat. ETH
BioConsult GmbH
Statistical and Language Services
Juchstrasse 18
CH-4462 Rickenbach BL
Tel 061 981-5717 / direkt 061 983-9087
Fax 061 983-9085

June 30

CooLFM needs your help!!

CooLFM is able to control FM-tuners integrated on BrookTree TV-tuners (WinTV Hauppage, AverTVPhone, etc). But the author can't solve a problem with card initialization. If you know how to program the BT8xx cards and know how to initialize such cards, please contact the author! (e-mail: eg@os2.ru).

http://coolfm.os2.ru

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