From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 4 10:05:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA15801 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:05:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA15782 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:04:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id TAA05215 for ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 19:45:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01043 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:41:35 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:41:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: ANNOUNCE: xmcd v2.0 CD-audio player (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Could someone with a Motif developement package please create a port and a tarball for this fine package ?! This would be fine ! Thanks Andreas /// - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 96 23:39:50 PST From: Xmcd Admin To: andreas@knobel.gun.de Subject: ANNOUNCE: xmcd v2.0 CD-audio player -------------------- X M C D version 2.0 patchlevel 0 -------------------- by Ti Kan I am pleased to announce the release of xmcd version 2.0, a package including xmcd, an X11/Motif-based CD player utility and cda, a command-line driven, non-graphical CD audio player. This software represents many months of development and refinements, as well as a beta test program involving many dedicated individuals around the world. This release of xmcd features the following: - Standard functions: Stop, Play, Pause, Next/Previous Track, Next/Previous Index, Fast forward/rewind with audio sample, Eject and On/off. - Direct track access keypad and track-warp slider controls. - Volume control with selectable taper characteristics. - Balance control. - Channel routing control: Select between normal stereo, reversed stereo, mono-L, mono-R, or mono-L+R. - Track/Index/Time display: Selectable to display elapsed time, remaining track time, or remaining disc time. - Status display: for current play status, A->B mode, program mode, CD database. - Shuffle (random) play function. - Repeat function with iteration counter. - Sample function: Play a few seconds of each track. - A->B function: Repeat from selectable point A and B. - Eject inhibit function: To prevent someone from ejecting the disc by pressing the button on the drive. - Automation options on CD load, eject, play completion and program exit. - Track Program function: Play tracks in custom order. - CD database function: Allows you to store CD title/track titles in database, and associate each disc with a play program. Displays the current playing disc title/track information. In addition, you can enter and display arbitrary text associated with the disc or each track, such as band information, lyrics, etc. - Remote CD database: Query CD entries on a remote network server. The server can be on the Internet or other TCP/IP networks. - CD database entry send: Contribute CD database entries to a central archive via Internet electronic mail. - Main window button face labels can be configured to display pictorial symbols, or text with hotkey mnemonics. - The complete application can be operated via the keyboard with full support for keyboard traversal and hotkeys. - All labels and messages can be customized to non-English languages via X resources. - All colors and many other functionality are user-customizable using X resource settings. - On-line feature-specific help information. - Attractive, intuitive-to-use Motif user interface. - Device-specific configuration files to make xmcd adaptable to most CD-ROM drives. Xmcd uses the Motif toolkit to achieve a pleasing appearance, such that it actually looks and feels like a real CD player for all basic functions, yet takes advantage of the GUI and window system to make programming and CD database functions easy. Currently, the cda utility offers almost the same functionality as xmcd except the FF, REW, Sample and A->B features are not available. Also, the CD database is read-only via cda (no updates). In addition, a visual mode is available that turns cda into a screen-oriented (curses-based) CD player. While xmcd version 2.0 does not look appreciably different than the previous version, it is nevertheless much improved. If you are running an older version of xmcd, please upgrade to 2.0. A list of changes since the previous release is listed below. The source code of this version of xmcd and cda supports the following operating systems environments: 1. Apple A/UX - A/UX version 3.0 or later (on Apple Macintosh m68k, with devscsi module installed) 2. Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI) BSD/OS - BSD/OS version 2.0 or later (on Intel x86 PC-compatible) 3. Data General DG/UX - DG/UX version 5.4R3.00 or later (on DG AViiON m88k) 4. Digital Equipment Corporation Digital UNIX (OSF/1) - OSF/1 version 1.3 or later (on Digital Alpha AXP) 5. Digital Equipment Corporation Ultrix - Ultrix version 4.3 or later (on DECStations, with SCSI CAM installed) 6. Digital Equipment Corporation OpenVMS (See notes in the INSTALL.VMS file) - OpenVMS version 6.1 or later (on Digital Alpha AXP) - OpenVMS version 5.2-2 or later (on Digital VAXstations) 7. FreeBSD - FreeBSD 2.0.5 or later (on Intel x86 PC-compatible) 8. Hewlett Packard HP-UX - HP-UX release 9.x (HP 9000 m68k Series 300, Series 400) - HP-UX release 9.x (HP 9000 PA-RISC Series 700) - HP-UX release 10.x (HP 9000 PA-RISC Series 700, Series 800) 9. IBM AIX - AIX version 3.2.x (on IBM RS/6000 Power and compatibles) - AIX version 4.x (on IBM RS/6000 Power/PowerPC and compatibles) 10. Linux - Linux 1.0 or later (on Intel x86 PC-compatible and other platforms) 11. NetBSD - NetBSD 1.0A or later (on Intel x86 PC-compatible, Sun Sparc and other platforms) 12. SCO UNIX System V Release 3.2 (on Intel x86 PC-compatible) - SCO UNIX 3.2v4.x - Open Desktop version 2.x - Open Desktop version 3.x - Open Server release 5.x 13. Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme SINIX System V Release 4 - SINIX-N (on SNI RM200, RM400) - SINIX-P (on SNI RM600) 14. Silicon Graphics Irix System V Release 4 - Irix version 4.x (on SGI platforms) - Irix version 5.x (on SGI platforms) - Irix64 version 6.x (on SGI platforms) 15. Sony NEWS-OS - NEWS-OS 4.1 or later (on Sony NEWS/m68k) 16. Stratus FTX System V Release 4 - FTX version 3.x (on Stratus Continuum PA-RISC platforms) 17. SunOS - SunOS 4.1.x / Solaris 1.x (on Sun Sparc and compatibles) 18. SunOS System V Release 4 - SunOS 5.x / Solaris 2.x (on Sun Sparc and compatibles) - SunOS 5.x / Solaris 2.x (on Intel x86 PC-compatible) 19. UNIX System V Release 4.0 (on Intel x86 PC-compatible) (Note: 4.0.3 or later recommended) - AT&T - Consensys - Dell - ESIX - ISC - Microport - Micro Station Technology - UHC - USL 20. UNIX System V Release 4.0 (on Motorola m88k) - Motorola 21. UNIX System V Release 4.2 (on Intel x86 PC-compatible) - Consensys - Information Foundation - Novell/Univel UnixWare 1.x - Onsite - USL 22. UNIX System V Release 4.2MP (on Intel x86 PC-compatible) - Novell UnixWare 2.x This release of xmcd and cda should work with the following CD-ROM drives: Apple CD SC+, CD-150, CD-300, CD-300i, CD-300e Aztech CDA268-01A (#) Chinon CDS-431, CDX-431, CDS-435, CDX-435, CDS-525, CDX-525, CDS-535, CDX-535, CDS-545, CDX-545 Compaq CDU-561, CR-503BCQ Creative Labs CD-ROM (#) Digital Equipment Corporation RRD42, RRD43, RRD44, RRD45 Hewlett Packard XM-3301, XM-3401, XM-3501 Hitachi CDR-1650S, CDR-1750S, CDR-1950S, CDR-3650, CDR-3750, CDR-6750 IBM 7210-001, 7210-005, 7201-010, Ext-ISA (#) Longshine LCS-7260 (#) Media Vision CDR-H93RMV, Reno Micro Design International 600CD4X, SE6CDI Mitsumi FX-001S (#). FX-001D (#), FX-001DE (#), FX-400B (#), LU-005S (#) NEC CDR-25, CDR-37, CDR-38 (*), CDR-55, CDR-72, CDR-74, CDR-77, CDR-80, CDR-82, CDR-84, CDR-74-1 (*), CDR-84-1 (*), CDR-210P, CDR-222S, CDR-260 (#), CDR-260R (#), CDR-400, CDR-401, CDR-500, CDR-501, CDR-502, CDR-510, CDR-511, CDR-512, CDR-600, CDR-601, CDR-602, CDR-900 Optics Storage 8000AT (#) Kotobuki/Matsushita/Panasonic CR-501B, CR-502B, CR-503B, CR-504B, CR-521 (#), CR-522 (#), CR-523 (#), CR-562 (#), CR-563 (#), CR-574 (#), CR-581 (#) Okano/Wearnes CDD110 (#) Orchid CD-3110 (#) Philips/LMS CM206 (#) Pioneer DRM-600, DRM-600A, DRM-610, DRM-602X, DRM-604X (*), DRM-624X, DRM-1804X, DR-U104X, DR-U124X, DR-UA124X (#) Plextor/Texel DM-3024, DM-5024, DM-3028, DM-5028, PX-43C, PX-45C, PX-63C, PX-65C Procom CDT4-3X, CDT4-DS, CDT4-MX, CDT7-3X, CDT7-DS, DSP-DR0020, ICD-MX, MCD-DS, MCDN-3X, SICD-DS, SICDN-3X, SXCD-DS, SXCDN-3X Sanyo CRD-254P (#), CDR-H93RMV Silicon Graphics XM-3301, XM-3401, XM-3501 Sony CDU-31A (#), CDU-33A (#), CDU-55E (#), CDU-55S, CDU-76E (#), CDU-76S, CDU-531 (#), CDU-535 (#), CDU-541, CDU-561, CDU-6111, CDU-6211, CDU-7205N (#), CDU-7211, CDU-7811, CDU-8002, CDU-8003, CDU-8003A, CDU-8012 Stratus D850 Sun CD-ROM (Sony OEM), CD-ROM (Toshiba OEM) Teac CD-55A (#) Toshiba XM-3101, XM-3201, XM-3301, XM-3401, XM-3501, XM-3601, XM-3701, XM-4101, XM-5201, XM-5301, XM-5302 (#), XM-5402 (#), XM-5901, XM-8100 Other SCSI-2 compliant CD-ROM drives Other non-SCSI CD-ROM drives (#) (driver support required) Units denoted with a hash symbol (#) are currently supported only on certain OS platforms that contain the proper device driver for the CD-ROM drive. These drives are either typically used with an ATAPI or proprietary interface card or a sound card. See the README file in the xmcd distribution for details. The source code release of xmcd/cda version 2.0 is available via Internet anonymous FTP: (Instructions) ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README (gzip'd tar archive) ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.tar.gz A public CD database for xmcd is also available (you need to get this only if you want a copy of the full xmcd CD database on your local system. See the "CD DATABASE SERVERS" section above): (Instructions) ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-cddb.README (gzip'd tar archive) ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-cddb.tar.gz Some ftp sites are not secure, as it is commonly allowed for anyone to anonymously post to them. The xmcd web page (see below) lists the checksum of all xmcd-related packages, so you can check that your copy is genuine. Both packages require the "gunzip" (GNU unzip) utility to uncompress. If your system does not have gunzip, you can build it from the source code. Gzip/gunzip can be found on various FTP sites (such as prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu). This CD database is periodically updated with more entries, and you are encouraged to contribute to this database by using the "Send" feature in xmcd. Please read the xmcd-cddb.README file in the public CD database archive before sending entries to the public database. Pre-compiled binary releases of xmcd and cda for certain OS environments are also available from the author. Please send e-mail to ti@amb.org for more information. For those of you with access to the WWW (via Netscape, NCSA Mosaic or other WWW browser), there is now a Home Page for xmcd and cda. The location is: http://sunsite.unc.edu/~cddb/xmcd/ This home page provides up-to-date information about the current release version, online README file, FTP service to get the software, an interactive form to send comments and suggestions, and late breaking announcement, if any. Also available on the xmcd/cda WWW Home Page is the Online CD Database Search feature. This is based on the public xmcd CD database and allows you to find entries in the database quickly. You are invited to visit this space and make use of its services. Changes since v1.4 patchlevel 2: - -------------------------------- CD-ROM drive support changes: - Added support for the following SCSI CD-ROM drives: Apple CD-300e Chinon CDS-545, CDX-545 IBM 7201-005, 7201-010 Media Vision CDR-H93RMV, Reno MDI 600CD4X, SE6CDI NEC CDR-25, CDR-37, CDR-55, CDR-222S, CDR-502, CDR-511, CDR-512, CDR-602 Panasonic/Matsushita CR-501B, CR-502B, CR-503B, CR-504B Pioneer DR-U104X, DR-U124X, DRM-624X Plextor PX-63C, PX-65C Sanyo CDR-H93RMV Sony CDU-76S Toshiba XM-3601, XM-3701, XM-5201, XM-5301, XM-5901 - Added support for the following non-SCSI CD-ROM drives: Aztech CDA268-01A IBM External-ISA Longshine LCS-7260 Mitsumi FX-400B Panasonic CR-522, CR-523, CR-574, CR-581 Philips CM206 Okano/Wearnes CDD110 Optics Storage 8000AT Orchid CD-3110 Pioneer DR-UA124X Sanyo CRD-254P Sony CDU-76E, CDU-531, CDU-535, CDU-7205N Teac CD-55A Toshiba XM-5302, XM-5402 - Corrected the NEC CDR-210P configuration defaults. - Added workaround for firmware bugs in some Sun CD-ROM drives (Sony OEM CDU-8012) that caused a SCSI bus hang after ejecting a CD. See the README file for details. - Added workaround for firmware bugs in some Digital RRD42 drives that caused xmcd to play track "110" after the end of certain CDs. - Fixed a bug which caused the CD table-of-contents to be incorrectly read on Sony CDU-6111 CD-ROM drives. - Added workaround for a firmware bugs in some Chinon CD-ROM drives. These drives report and accept track numbers in BCD (rather than binary as specified in the SCSI-2 specifications). OS Support changes: - Added support for the following OS/system platforms: BSDI BSD/OS 2.x or later on x86 Digital OpenVMS on alpha/VAX HP-UX 9.x on m68k HP-UX 10.x on PA-RISC NetBSD 1.0A or later on x86, sparc and others SCO Open Server Release 5.x on x86 Siemens Nixdorf SINIX SVR4/mips Silicon Graphics Irix64 SVR4 6.x Sony NEWS-OS/m68k - Non-SCSI CD-ROM drives are now supported on the FreeBSD platform via the new FreeBSD ioctl method module. - Modified to support a change in the FreeBSD 2.0.5R SCSI device driver (it now requires the device to be opened O_RDWR rather than O_RDONLY for SCSI pass-through operations). - Changed handling of dynamic library search on some systems to be more intelligent, and moved the support of creating symlinks into install.sh (this was in configure.sh in previous releases). - SCSI command timeout values have been increased to 10 seconds on all platforms that support such a parameter. This avoids problems with some slow-reacting CD-ROM drives. - Fixed cda_d/Imakefile to properly support Digital Ultrix. - Worked around a problem with SIGCHLD handling in the HP-UX VUE environment. Previously, xmcd may hang when it spawned child processes to perform various tasks under VUE. - This distribution now comes with several 32x32 pixmap files suitable for use as an xmcd desktop icon. See the README file for details. Misc changes: - Changed all file names to be compatible with the ISO9660 standard (without the Rockridge extension). The exceptions are listed as follows (these cannot be changed due to existing convention): Imakefile (all sub-directories) common_d/patchlevel.h xmcd_d/XKeysymDB misc_d/xmcd.icon If you received the xmcd source distribution on a CD-ROM that does not implement the Rockridge extension then the above files will have their names truncated. You must rename them back to their original names before attempting to compile/install. An important user-visible aspect of this change is that the former LIBDIR/xmcd/config/configure.sh shell script is now named LIBDIR/xmcd/config/config.sh. - Changed all *.d subdirectory names to *_d. This is to make xmcd compatible with OpenVMS which does not allow dots in the directory name. Also, the wm2xmcd.d directory is renamed dbconv_d. - Changes to xmcd widget creation code to fix compatibility problems with some ports of Motif 2.0. - Source code related to CD database management functions are now consolidated into the cddb_d subdirectory; which is built into a library and shared by xmcd and cda. This library now has the capability of using a remote CDDB server on a TCP/IP network. As a result of the reorganization the following changes are made: 1. The "dbdir:" common parameter is renamed "cddbPath:" and the XMCD_DBPATH environment variable is changed to XMCD_CDDBPATH. The separator character for each component in these parameters is changed from a colon (:) to a semi-colon (;). In addition to the absolute and relative path names (for local directories), remote servers can be specified with the @hostname[:port] syntax. The hostname can be the CD database server name or its IP number. The port number is optional, and need not be specified if it's the same as the default (which is set in the common.cfg file). An example of the cddbPath parameter: cddbPath: rock;jazz;classical;~/mycddb;@cddbsrv.xyz.com The config.sh script now prompts for remote CD database server names and configures this parameter for you. 2. The "maxDbdirs:" parameter has been obsoleted. 3. The "dbFileMode:" parameter is renamed "cddbFileMode:". 4. The former "cddb" indicator in the main window now has been changed to display one of four possible messages: query Searching CD databases loc-db Current CD entry found in local CD database rmt-db Current CD entry found in remote CD database (blank) No CD database entry found for current CD, or no CD loaded - Xmcd now automatically scrolls the track list in the CDDB/Program subwindow during playback such that the current playing track would be visible in the list window. The auto-scrolling behavior is suppressed when a track is selected in the track list, or when editing track titles. - The scrolling position of the CDDB/Program subwindow track list is now preserved when the time display format is changed using the total/track toggle buttons. Previously, this caused the track list to scroll to the top. - Double-clicking (or pressing carriage return) on a track in the CDDB/Program subwindow track list is equivalent to creating a program with the selected track and pressing play. This is the same as in previous versions, but with this release, the main window display no longer shows the "prog" indicator while in this mode, nor is the track number shown in the CDDB/Program subwindow "Program Sequence" text field. Also, the program is now automatically cleared after the selected track is finished playing. - Xmcd now displays an asterisk "*" character after the track title in the CDDB/Program subwindow track list, if there is extended track information associated with that track. To view it, select the track by clicking on it, then click the Track "Ext Info" button to pop up the Track Extended Info window. The "cda toc" output has also been modified to more closely resemble xmcd. - When ejecting the CD or exiting xmcd, if the on-screen CD database information has changed but not yet saved, xmcd now pops up a dialog box that asks whether the information should be saved to file. - The Options pop-up window now has a Save button that allows the user to save the settings. - Added two new device-specific parameters "repeatMode" and "shuffleMode" that allows the user to specify whether the repeat or shuffle modes should be enabled on program startup. - Xmcd now maintains the file /tmp/.cdaudio/curr.XXXX which contains information about the currently loaded CD. Namely, the device path name, the CD database category and the disc ID is recorded in this file. Other applications may read this file to identify the CD that is loaded in the drive. This feature is disabled on the Digital OpenVMS platform. - Fixed an obscure xmcd crash that may occur when the time display is in r-disc mode; while a program is cleared but still playing, and an attempt is made to change tracks. - After a CDDB link operation, the xmcd main window now displays the track title correctly while the CD is playing. Previously, "unknown track title" is shown until a track change occurred. - When running in shuffle mode or if a track program is in effect, moving the track warp slider all the way to the right produced incorrect behavior on some platforms. Also, if the CD is not playing and the track warp slider is moved by clicking to the left or right of the thumb (not dragging), the keypad time display is not correctly updated. These problems are now fixed. - The cda utility did not handle the playOnLoad and ejectOnDone parameters correctly. Fixed. - Reorganized the code in cda to reduce the size of the cda_visual() routine. - Multiple cda "client" programs can now simultaneously run with a single cda daemon (the same CD-ROM drive). - The cda utility now correctly handles old FIFO files from a previously-killed cda daemon. Also, implemented new locking scheme to ensure that no more than a single cda daemon process can be invoked per CD-ROM drive. - Added a "cda debug" command that allows the user to query, set or unset the debug mode on-the-fly. - The install.sh script displays the wrong default LIBDIR on XFree86-3.x systems. Fixed. - Display formatting improvements to the config.sh script. - Other enhancements and cleanups. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMWP7vvMLpmkD/U+FAQHCJwP7BvnH3N5oy3LP6H/WW4Gt9+qdqAtB6HHr ufqTNYJGGO5ZtHAyd/1hLjmn7qWA1bgqZ7XVg0YcYELSpTlLqVKCNtKqXT8FX7Lc h58vQ4RRVCOdZQyTCkzJIbuQRvVEsWg/7Uz+B41Ttby/EnRT0Lw1fbyxRSJhd7ya N7kT/NHzPP8= =dGMP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----