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last edit: 2/21/94 18:10:21

Hello MPEG fans,

I am happy to announce the first release of my free, software-only
MPEG audio player "maplay". The player was developed for Sun SPARCstations,
Silicon Graphics Indigo machines and DECstations with the GNU C++ compiler,
but the program should also work on other platforms.
Features currently implemented include:
- playing of layer I/II MPEG audio streams on SPARC 10 machines with
  the dbri device and on Indigos
  (both devices and MPEG are capable of producing CD-quality audio output)
- it supports all modes (single channel, stereo, joint stereo and dual channel)
  and bitrates (except free mode currently)
- decoding of streams to stdout into a raw pcm format for further format
  conversions to .au, .wav etc.

The sourcecode and a short MPEG audio stream for testing has been posted to
alt.binaries.multimedia on 2/21/94.

Enjoy MPEG audio,
bye,
     Tobias     (bading@cs.tu-berlin.de)
