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CW-Multimedia Classes

Version:

0.3.1.0

Release date:

Sunday, 14 July, 2002

Home:

https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/CW-MM_classes

License:

Freeware

Interface:

PMShell
Workplace Shell

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Chris Wohlgemuth

Gregg Young

The package is a complete replacement for the multimedia classes coming with MMOS2. The included classes are more robust and have an extended feature set like displaying image information in the settings notebook and the details view. A new JPEG IO-procedure overcomes limitations of the default JPEG procedure coming with the multimedia subsystem. Features:

Integrates MP3- and OGG-Files into the WPS;
Audio details of any audio class in folder details view;
Audio details of any audio class in the settings notebook;
ID3 tags in the details view of folders;
ID3 tag editing in the settings notebook;
Caching of information to speed up folder opening;
Image file information in the settings and the details view;
New JPEG IO-procedure included which may read progressive JPEG files;
Media folder plays any audio file class;
New shadow class showing audio details in folder details view;
Playlists (the folder contents is the playlist);
CD player with FreeDB support;
Control playing using setup strings;
Audio device sharing;
ID3 tag display in player;
REXX interface if WPS Wizard is installed;
Audio stream object for listening to IceCast servers.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Follow the instructions!

Install MMAudio Pak multimedia classes.
Make a copy of JPEGIO.DLL MMPARTS.DLL files in the directory MMOS2\DLL and backup your INI files.
Deinstall any old version of the media folder and the CWAudio classes. Restart the system.
Clean the INI files with Checkini.
Put the contents of the archive into a directory and start the script Runme1st.cmd
Restart the WPS. DON'T SKIP THIS STEP!
Rename the file MMPARTS.DLL in x:\MMOS2\DLL
Clean again the INI files with Checkini and/or another program.
Restart again the WPS. DON'T SKIP THIS STEP!
Run install.exe. This will copy the files and register the new classes. Editing OS2.INI with this little tool from Salvador Camacho you can change all system default players: see "Hidden features" in the main INF file. NOTE: multimedia classes work fine with XWorkplace. If you find problems, the installation was probably not properly done. WPS-Wizard is optional.

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

Following links are to additional programs, not mandatory but useful:

WPS Wizard

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

CW-Multimedia Classes v. 0.3.1.0 (10/6/2025, Gregg Young)	Readme/What's new	0.3.1.0 - Add help button to convert dialogs - Make target name different from source name when convert is asked to "convert" to the same format as the source. - Fix audio player and mmfind so they play MIDI files if TimidityMCD is installed - "Keys" help now displays the CWMM keys help instead of the WPS keys help - Remove copy create shawdow and move from popup menus in folder where they don't work 0.3.0GA - Got CDDB working again - Save debug/trap logs to LOGFILES - Update Spanish, German and Russian tranlations - Get all mediafldr_xx.inf file to build completely - Change Freedb to CDDB. - Cleanup some help menus - Lxlite and add headers back to all executable files 0.3.0RC4 - Fixed file identify code so the internal audio player will play MIDI files - Added a midiplayer INI key (ab.exe fails to play midis) also added to help - Removed remaining code added to block using TimidityMCD - Fixed an issue with duplicate "About" dialogs in the TW version of the media folder dialogs - Removed Audio editor from MIDI Open as menu 0.3.0RC3 - Fixed the help file build so country, codepage and language are all picked up correctly - Fixed failure of M3U list to save and close properly - Added M3U and Media player specific help to their respective help menus - Fixed the creation of the non-English mediafldr_xx.inf files 0.3.0RC2 - Removed the configuration program - Added all available translations and fixed some codepage definition issues - Changes so mov avi and jpeg file are all played by a modern video player found in the PATH. - The mplayer in winos2 is no longer found when searching the path for mplayer. - Mplayer vio window starts minimize and both Mplayer and ffplay close when video finishes. - Updated mediafldr.inf to include new and missing ini entries under hidden features. - Fixed the MMOS2.ini updating 0.3.0RC1 - Everything is now built with VAC 3.08 - Add commands to make files to build the RU media folder help - Prevent CD tracks from being droped on launchpad and M3U lists Netlabs Ticket 19 (from Lars Erdmann) - Fix 2 traps (from Lars Erdmann) - Include all the language files in the package - Add code to open modern video formats from MMOS2 using mplayer/smplayer or ffmpeg - Added a program to configure the ini settings 0.2.9pre4 (9/28/23) -Correctly fix memory leak in the mmfolder draw code (from Lars Erdmann) AN ticket 2756 NL ticket 22 -Remove stray @ in some About dialogs. AN Ticket 2947 -Update server in CDDB.ini to one the actually exists (from Dave Yeo) AN Ticket 3539 -Add a candidate CWMMConfig.exe to make it easier to update CWMM ini settings. AN Ticket 2944 0.2.9pre3 (9/21/23) -Get CD Digital Audio working. Thanks Lars NL ticket 2 AN ticket 1991 -Support modern video formats (requires installing FFMPEG or Mplayer/SMplayer) -Fixed memory leak in the mmfolder draw code AN ticket 2756 NL ticket 22 -Fixed time being appended to title instead of replacing the last line AN ticket 2696 -Got TimidityMCD working with CWMM 0.2.9pre2: (11.08.05) -Close confirmation dialog of media folder will be dismissed automatically after 60s (use INI key to change) -MM-find: app opens audio files in editor now (used to open default view and the folder) -MM-find: video files are opened in player. No opening of the folder anymore -MM-find: app loads NLV strings from resource DLL -MM-find: query system for user added audio extensions for insertion into the search dialog -MM-find: improved handling of image extensions -MM-find: added to tasklist -MM-find: added play controls for audio files -MM-find: save last visited audio directory -Helper apps (converter etc.) create their INI file in the users home directory now -MMAudio class claimed to support .wav extension while MMWAV should be the only one doing that (audioext.rx) -MMVideo: associate extensions added by third party IO procs with it automatically (videoext.rx) -MMVideo: defined type "Digital video" -MMMPG: associate extensions added by OpenMPEG with it automatically (mpegext.rx) -Improvements to the build process of the helper apps -createcd.exe takes the name of created CD-folders from the resource DLL -CWCDFolder: improved sorting (hope so, never saw problems on my system) -CWCDFolder: No more hic up at start of track -MM classes: fixed boot hangs because of endless loops in .rx files under some circumstances 0.2.9pre1: -Don't show a message box if resource DLL can't be found. -Changed DLL finding algorithm. Should be more robust, when classes are improperly registered. -New method cwmmRequestBmpDeletion() for WPS-wizard to trigger background BMP deletion. -Help for audio stream class. -Close confirmation dialog of media folder is now modal to the folder -Audio information for shadows in media folders wasn't shown when linked object wasn't touched first. -Mediafolder refresh triggers new time calculation. -Stop menu item of audio stream objects didn't work. 0.2.8: -Icon view removed for media folders. -Icon view page removed for media folders. This removes it also from CD folders which never supported icon view anyway. -Compact view improved. -Track information in switch list and titles. -Opening of Media folder wasn't possible when settings already open. -Fixed a memory leak for image files. -Fixed deadlock when copying image files in light table folders. -Background bitmap deletion of image files to give memory back to the system. -English distribution included german help file for the classes. -Audio objects stopped playing after a second if not started from a folder. -Workaround for WPS crash with Timidity. No, It's still not working with the classes. -Fixed possible crash with abstract objects in light table folders. -Fixed CD querying for LVM systems (not for dynamically attached USB drives yet). -Audio file scanning now stops when folder is closed. -No scanning for CD tracks. -Video player didn't work at all. -ID3 info for artist was overwritten with the album name when using setup strings. -Trap when Quicktime for OS/2 was installed during scanning of MP3 files. -Marking image files as invalid for the WPS when caused a trap. -Only create thumbs when image is visible in container. Esp. useful when WPS-Wizard is installed. -When first creating ID3 tags the genre was always set to 'blues'. -CD objects are no longer created automatically. This will fix most lock ups people experienced. -Slide show program for displaying the contents of one or more directories 0.2.7b: -New creatobj.cmd. 0.2.7 -Renamed method cwmmAddWaveInformationPage() to cwmmAddAudioInformationPage(). -Added container handle to parameter list of methods cwmmPlayTrack() and cwmmPauseTrack() -If several audio files in a folder are started at once they will be played consecutively. -Image information in popup menu -Added audio information for midi files in details view. -Audioplayer playback always started with default volume setting (70%). -Master volume item added to sys menu of audio player. -Language now derived from LANG setting not the country code. -URL of audio stream objects was truncated to 4 chars when reopening the settings. -Audio-Stream objects lost their type after changing settings. -Bitrate display for MP3 files if MMIOMP3 0.4.2 or above is installed. -Bitrate display for OGG files if MMIOOGG 0.3.1 or above is installed. -ID3 tag handling completely rewritten. Track information may be 256 bytes long per entry. ID3 tags are handled separately now. -Volume for audio files adjustable now. Volume menu no longer starts master volume. -Modified settings page handling for audio objects on CD -Added INI key to disable audio file scanning for certain drives. -Added INI key to disable ID3 tag reading for certain drives. 0.2.6 -Audio extensions added in the MM configuration notebook are recognized. -createcd compiled with VAC -helper progs statically linked. -No template for CWMMDataFile. -New FLAC class. -New EA MMNUMAUDIOBYTES containing the number of audio bytes of the file. -M3U playlist editor failed using M3U lists created by Rockbox. -Play menu for M3U objects. -Hilighting of play and pause buttons during device sharing corrected -You can't start more than 3 audio files at a time now, preventing problems when a whole folder of audio objects was accidently selected. -Support for converting to OGG-Vorbis. Any future write enabled audio IO-Proc will be automatically supported now. -Default audio player replaced -Opening of folders with image files is faster now -Image spacing in lighttable folders improved -Image converter dialog had german resources in the english language version (obviously nobody cared...). -Preview in image converter -PNG files are recognized as image files. Automatic support of future image IO procs. -PNG image class -Only one INI file for MM class helpers. 0.2.5 Media folder: -Popup menu on time control for changing display -New playlist editor -Shadows for fly over help MMClasses: -DLLs needed by specified players or editors weren't found if not in LIBPATH. -You may specify a different mp3 player -Fixed wrong icon size for standard classes in details view of light table folders. -Added support for animated folder icons in lightable folder -Templates were not drawn in light table folders icon view -Pause function for audio files -Fixed asscociations for image files. -Fixed image conversion. -Renamed REXX functions. The old names are still working but shouldn't be used longer. -Added new REXX function cwmmQueryImageInfo() -Added method cwmmQueryImageInfo(). -ID3 tags of MP3 files weren't set when using setup strings. Only EAs were updated. -No more garbled characters with some players when reading the ID3 tags. -Black and white images are properly drawn in lightable folders JPEG IO procedure: -Procedure now accepts 8 bit input images.
www.hobbesarchive.com/Hobbes/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/util/CWMM_0-3-1-0.wpi
CW-Multimedia Classes v. 0.2.8 (German, 2/11/2004, Chris Wohlgemuth)	Readme/What's new	CW-Multimedia classes V0.2.8 (C) Chris Wohlgemuth 2001-2004 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/ http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting Replacement multimedia classes for the ones coming with MMOS2. These new classes are more robust and have additional features. Additional WPS classes for seamless integration of MP3, OGG and FLAC files into the WPS. Standard WPS audio menues like any other audio file. Information page in the settings notebook about audio characteristics. ID3 (V1.1) page for MP3 files for viewing and setting. Audio and ID3 information shown in details view. The classes were known as CW-audio-classes. Media-Folder class to play any known audio file. Use it as your favorite MP3-player. CD player with FreeDB support. Playlinst editor for *.m3u files. PNG image class. New JPG IO-procedure for reading progressive JPG images. Slide show program for displaying the contents of one ore more directories. Requires: OS/2 Warp 4 or eCS, MMOS2 and EMX runtime 09d fix4 cw-mmclasses-0_2_8-ger.zip - german version Licence: This package is provided 'as is' for free. See license.txt.
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cw-mmclasses-0_2_8-ger.zip	local copy
CW-Multimedia Classes v. 0.2.7 (English, 6/9/2003, Chris Wohlgemuth)	Readme/What's new	1. CW-multimedia classes ------------------------ This package is a complete replacement for the multimedia classes coming with MMOS2. The convert menu is enhanced and the image classes are more robust WRT broken image files or buggy IO-procs. The limitations of the JPG-IO proc are still there. This procedure crashes on some images and the only way to resolve is a restart of the WPS. To overcome this limitiation a new JPGIO-IO procedure is included. New classes are for seemless integration of the MMIO procedures for MP3 and OGG files written by Russel O'Connor. Get these procedures from: http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/ After installation Ogg- and MP3 files are treated the same way by the WPS as the other audio files. They have their own Icons and the same menus as for example wave files. A doubleclick starts playback another one stops it. The convert menu item helps you decoding the file to wave without any other program. The settings notebook of every audio file gets a new page added describing the audio characteristics like playtime or samplerate. This data is also shown in the details view of folders if set to class:CWAudio. There's also a new open-item for volume. You may view and change the ID3 tags of MP3 files using the settings notebook. These tags are also shown in the details view. A new JPEG IO procedure supports progressive JPEG images. 2. Media folder and audio shadow -------------------------------- The Media folder is a player for any audio file known by OS/2. The usual play controls are available and you may create playlists just by dropping files into the folder. Audio files will not be put into the folder directly but shadows are created. A new shadow class shows you details information for the linked audio files in the details view of a Media-Folder. A REXX interface is available if WPS-wizard V0.2.0 or above is installed. A WPS enabled CD player with FreeDB support is included and a *.M3U playlist editor. Installation ------------ Before you ask: YES THE MULTIMEDIA CLASSES WORK WITH XWP. DON'T BOTHER ME WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR INI FILES! MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR INI FILES! MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR INI FILES! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Note: If you've installed WordPerfect for OS/2 5.2(a) uninstall it first. Otherwise it'll be impossible to deregister the IBM multimedia classes and your system will most likely crash during install of the new classes. Be sure to clean the INI file using 'checkini /C' before you proceed. Make a copy of JPEGIO.DLL and MMPARTS.DLL in the directory MMOS2\DLL. These files will be overwritten during installation of the new multimedia classes. The install skript will create additional copies of the DLLs in the directory MMOS2\CWMMBack for reinstallation of the IBM classes Deinstall any old version of the media folder and the CWAudio classes. Restart the system. 1. Put the contents of the archive into a directory 2. Start the Skript Runme1st.cmd 3. Restart the WPS. DON'T SKIP THIS STEP! 4. Clean the INI files with 'Checkini.exe /C' (wptool32.zip, http://hobbes.nmsu.edu) 5. Restart the WPS. DON'T SKIP THIS STEP! 6. Run install.exe.This will copy the files and register the new classes. 7. Restart the WPS so the new classes will be loaded. If the WPS doesn't start rename the installation directory from a command line. It may be helpful to move all objects from the desktop when start problems occur. Be sure to use the latest release of the MMIOMP3 IO-procedure (http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/). It has a lot of improvements. Uninstallation -------------- 1. Use the uninstall feature of the generic installer 2. Restart the WPS. DON'T SKIP THIS STEP! 3. Clean the INI files with 'Checkini.exe /C' (wptool32.zip, http://hobbes.nmsu.edu) 4. Run the script x:\MMOS2\CWMMBack\INSTIBM.CMD to install the IBM classes. Replace x with your boot drive. Restart the WPS afterwards. Known problems -------------- The playtime may be not correct for some VBR-MP3s. This is a problem of the MMIOMP3-Proc not the classes. MP3 files may not be recognized correctly. This happens if there was a previous installation of the classes. Drop the folder containing the MP3 files on the skript \cwmm-x_x_x-lang\bin\RemoveEA.CMD to remove the attribute .CLASSINFO and to set the right .TYPE attribute. The folder must be closed when dropping! Wave and ogg files loose the track information entered in the settings so be sure to backup this information before using the skript. The audio stream class only supports IceCast servers. There's no support for Shoutcast. Bug reporting ------------ Use the 'Multimedia Extensions' section of http://xtracker.netlabs.org if you find a bug. Helpful utility ------------ Salvador Parra Camacho has written a program to change the hidden settings (see documentation) in a convenient way. Find the homepage at: http://www.geocities.com/escajarro/ Direct download of the utility: http://www.geocities.com/escajarro/soft/ccfg010z.zip (Zip) http://www.geocities.com/escajarro/soft/ccfg010w.zip (Wpi) History ------- V0.1.0 First release of the new audio classes. V0.2.0 -Type 'Digital Audio' returned in addition to MP3/OGGS for the audio classes. -Setting of .TYPE EA so Digital Audio player works with MP3/OGG files without further fiddling -Caching of MP3 technical data in EAs to speed up folder opening. -ID3 data shown with the right codepage. -Mnemonic for Volume menu item. -New classes CWMediaFolder and CWAudioShadow for playing of audio files. V0.2.1 MMClasses: -A bunch of minor fixes. -No prereading of audio info for files on CD to speed up folder opening. Media folder: -Repeat function added -new (and improved) sliders -Keyboard control added (not for sliders yet) -Display for elapsed time, remaining time and ID3 tags (click to switch) -Change playtime font by DnD -Drag and drop handling rewritten. -Statusline added -REXX interface added -No audio info reading for files on CD to speed up CD opening. V0.2.2 MMClasses: -New CD track class for FreeDB enabled CD player -Improved open function. See media folder documentation Media folder: -CD player object with FreeDB support added. -Some minor fixes. V0.2.3 (13.07.2002) MMClasses: -Added new replacement classes for audio, video and image files. The MMOS2 classes are not used anymore. -Improved lighttable folder with selectable icon size. Media folder: -Added new replacement classes for audio, video and image files. The MMOS2 classes are not used anymore. -Improved lighttable folder with selectable icon size. V0.2.4 (29.11.2002) Media folder: -Fixed PM-freeze with broken shadows. -Fixed problems when user deleted shadows during playing. -Repeat function was broken. -Device sharing didn't really work. -Random play added. -Launch area for objects. -Settings opening was only possible with closed folders -Audio files are started on a separate thread. -Media folder will take over already playing files (very limited for now, only skip/stop). -CD-folder works for all drives not only default cd drive. MMClasses: -Added some more exception handlers. -Image details aren't read from CD unless key in INI file is set (see docs). -Titlebar of volume control may be hidden -Tabbing in volume control enabled -Save colors and position of volume control, audio- and image converter -Query audio information on a separate thread when awakening objects (speed boost for MP3) -Print menu removed for audio and video files. -Improved ID3 handling. ID3 V1.1 tracknumber is kept if present. -Elapsed time in icon titles when playing. -Changed names for classes to improve compatibility with the IBM classes. -Unified setup strings for MP3 and other audio files. -Lighttable folders: sometimes drawing of icons failed. V0.2.5 (16.02.2003) Media folder: -Popup menu on time control for changing display -New playlist editor -Shadows for fly over help MMClasses: -DLLs needed by specified players or editors weren't found if not in LIBPATH. -You may specify a different mp3 player -Fixed wrong icon size for standard classes in details view of light table folders. -Added support for animated folder icons in lightable folder -Templates were not drawn in light table folders icon view -Pause function for audio files -Fixed asscociations for image files. -Fixed image conversion. -Renamed REXX functions. The old names are still working but shouldn't be used longer. -Added new REXX function cwmmQueryImageInfo() -Added method cwmmQueryImageInfo(). -ID3 tags of MP3 files weren't set when using setup strings. Only EAs were updated. -No more garbled characters with some players when reading the ID3 tags. -Black and white images are properly drawn in light table folder JPEG IO procedure: -Procedure now accepts 8 bit input images. V0.2.6 (02.07.2003) -Audio extensions added in the MM configuration notebook are recognized. -createcd compiled with VAC -helper progs statically linked. -No template for CWMMDataFile. -New FLAC class. -New EA MMNUMAUDIOBYTES containing the number of audio bytes of the file. -M3U playlist editor failed using M3U lists created by Rockbox. -Play menu for M3U objects. -Hilighting of play and pause buttons during device sharing corrected -You can't start more than 3 audio files at a time now, preventing problems when a whole folder of audio objects was accidently selected. -Support for converting to OGG-Vorbis. Any future write enabled audio IO-Proc will be automatically supported now. -Default audio player replaced -Opening of folders with image files is faster now -Image spacing in lighttable folders improved -Image converter dialog had german resources in the english language version (obviously nobody cared...). -Preview in image converter -PNG image class -PNG files are recognized as image files. Automatic support of future image IO procs. -Only one INI file for MM class helpers. V0.2.7 (01.09.2003) -Renamed method cwmmAddWaveInformationPage() to cwmmAddAudioInformationPage(). -Added container handle to parameter list of methods cwmmPlayTrack() and cwmmPauseTrack() -If several audio files in a folder are started at once they will be played consecutively. -Image information in popup menu -Added audio information for midi files in details view. -Audioplayer playback always started with default volume setting (70%). -Master volume item added to sys menu of audio player. -Language now derived from LANG setting not the country code. -URL of audio stream objects was truncated to 4 chars when reopening the settings. -Audio-Stream objects lost their type after changing settings. -Bitrate display for MP3 files if MMIOMP3 0.4.2 or above is installed. -Bitrate display for OGG files if MMIOOGG 0.3.1 or above is installed. -ID3 tag handling completely rewritten. Track information may be 256 bytes long per entry. ID3 tags are handled separately now. -Volume for audio files adjustable now. Volume menu no longer starts master volume. -Modified settings page handling for audio objects on CD -Added INI key to disable audio file scanning for certain drives. -Added INI key to disable ID3 tag reading for certain drives. V0.2.7b (06.09.2003) -Skript creatobj.cmd for creation of CD players was broken. Credits ------- The Icons and graphics are (C) Klaus Staedtler-Przyborski. Thanks for fearless beta testing. The script for creation of a media folder tree is (c) Eirik Oeverby. License -------- Theses classes are free to use but copyrighted. Use them on your own risk. If they burn your house or destroy your data it's all your fault. Author ------ These classes are (C) 2001-2003 Chris Wohlgemuth. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/ http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cw-mmclasses-0_2_7b-eng.zip	local copy