[Vorbis-dev] ogg123 - remote control interface

[Conrad Parker]

On 17/12/06, ""-+:cundrak"@mail.bluetone.cz"
<""-+:cundrak"@mail.bluetone.cz"> wrote:
> Hi Conrad,
>
> good to hear from you. I have used patch from Richard van Paasen
> (http://www.t3i.nl/shareware/) which can be downloaded here:
> http://www.t3i.nl/php/blogdload.php?file=vorbis-tools-1.0-remote-patch.tgz
> I'll attach this patch to the ticket, you have mentioned in your email.
> The only problem is, that the patch is for vorbis tools 1.0
> I have used this patch for vorbis tools 1.0.1, when I developed my SW,
> and had to patch the release manually, because the code was too
> different from 1.0 to patch it with the patch script. So I assume the
> patch will now have to be changed quite a lot to patch current version
> (1.1.1), but I don't know in what stage the code is.

Ok, thanks for the link. I've fixed up the patch and applied it to SVN trunk.

> You asked what I'm using ogg123 for, well that's simple. I have created
> a standalone mp3 and vorbis player from old CD player. The frontend is
> controlled by the CD player's keys and communicates with a small LCD
> display, and ogg123 + mpg123 through remote interface. Now I'm actually
> working on extending this player to Internet radios, so I created
> ICY-patch for mpg123 (www.mpg123.de) for reading shoutcast (and icecast)
> metadata from the stream. I would also like to port this patch to
> ogg123, so it would be able to use this metadata too, but I have decided
> to start with the remote interface first getting into the main trunk.
> This is why I actually started posting into this maillist.

Great :-)

ok, could you test out the ogg123 from svn trunk with your player and
let me know if it works ok for you?

cheers,

Conrad.