Mpxplay

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Website mpxplay.sourceforge.net Type Audio player		Developers PDSoft

Stable release 1.61 (August 28, 2016; 6 months ago (2016-08-28)) [±] Operating systems MS-DOS, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, ReactOS License GNU General Public License

Mpxplay dos media player

Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows (from 2000 to 7). It supports a wide range of audio codecs, playlists, as well as containers for video formats. The DOS version uses a 32-bit DOS extender (DOS/32 Advanced DOS Extender being the most up-to-date version compatible).

Features

Mpxplay supports many features unique to it among DOS/console media players. These include:

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Native (DOS) support of many modern sound cards and sound chipsets

Commander-style directory, file and playlist handling

Multichannel support at AAC, AC3, DTS, FLAC and Vorbis inputs, and Win32/DirectSound, WAV-file outputs

Real-time DSP functions (volume control, surround, speed, tone control and crossfade)

Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16) ID3tag/APETag and playlist handling (reading and writing)

Using of external DLLs, like audio decoders and encoders (DOS/4G and Win32 versions of Mpxplay)

FTP client (remote directory browsing and direct playing from FTP servers)

LCD screen support (DOS only)

Support for reading and displaying long filenames under DOS using DOSLFN

Built-in TCP/IP stack with HTTP support for playing Internet radio streams

Formats

Native support for audio includes:

AAC

AC3

ALAC

APE

FLAC

MP2/MP3

MPC

Vorbis

WMA

AIF

WAV/W64

Audio CD playing and ripping (CDW)

Audio streams from these containers are supported as well:

AVI

ASF

FLV

MKV

MP4/MOV

MPG/VOB

OGG and TS containers.

With plugins it plays:

DTS

MOD

Opus

SPX

Playlist support includes:

M3U

M3U8

PLS

FPL

CUE

MXU

System Requirements

Mpxplay on DOS requires a ~100 MHz i486 (or faster) CPU for real-time playback (the exact value depends mostly on the format of the file being played), 4-8 MiB RAM, and MS-DOS 5.00+ or equivalent (FreeDOS, DR-DOS).

Sound card support

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Mpxplay supports sound cards using one of two methods: natively or through emulation. Native support is achieved by having drivers in Mpxplay that are capable of writing to the sound card directly. When native support is used more of the sound cards features are available such as the ability to use 32-bit sound.

Cards that are currently supported for native access are:

Sound Blaster Live and Live 24

Sound Blaster Audigy 1, 2, 4, and LS

SB Ensoniq (SB PCI 16/64/128)

CMI 8338 and 8738

Intel ICH

Intel HDA

VIA 686,8233, and 8235

Cards supported through emulation typically need a TSR driver wrapper, a program that translates the codes for one type of sound card to the one actually in the machine. This can be used to gain the ability to use a sound card that typically is not well supported by the majority of DOS applications. As DOS needs drivers to be programmed into each application in which they are used, it can be useful to run a sound card that is nearly universally supported by most applications with sound support: SoundBlaster 16.

Mpxplay can use this technique to support the following sound cards:

Sound Blaster Pro

The Win32 version of Mpxplay is a multi-threaded console application with the following sound outputs:

DirectSound (DirectX v3 or higher)

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