Theta Band Releases Multimedia Pack for OS/2 Warp
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Theta Band Releases Multimedia Pack for OS/2 Warp In Affiliation
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After a year of thorough beta-testing,
Theta Band Software is proud
to announce the final release of the Multimedia Pack for OS/2, a
collection of utilities to enhance OS/2 multimedia.
The MM Pack/2
Theta Band Software proudly announces the MM Pack - a collection of utilities
to enhance OS/2 multimedia. But before we can tell you what the MMPack
does, you need to know some basics about multimedia and OS/2.
MMPM stands for "Multi Media Presentation Manager." It's just the name of the multimedia subsystem of OS/2.
The term "multimedia" is a combination of words "multi" and "media". "Media" refers to things like digital audio, MIDI, or video. Multimedia is the process of combining two or more of these media together, hence the "multi" in "multimedia". Technically speaking, playing a wave file by itself is not multimedia, but playing a video file that has an audio track is multimedia. However, few people recognize the distinction, so anything that has to do with audio or video is considered multimedia.
MMPM/2 provides two core functions:
This is just what the core of MMPM/2 does. Most of the interesting work is handled by a variety of "plug-ins" that allow it to understand the different types of media as well as the different types of hardware that you need in order to play or record the media. MMPM/2 supports plug-ins that ...
IBM provides several plug-ins with OS/2, but not enough. In addition, some of the existing plug-ins don't always work right, or work the way you want them to. For instance, we've all had problems installing device drivers, or maybe there's a MIDI file that works great in Windows but won't work in OS/2. Or maybe you'd like to be able to play two wave files at once. This is where our MMPack comes in.
The goal of the MMPack is to fill in all of these holes in MMPM/2. It is a collection of ioprocs, codecs, device drivers, and other utilities which bring out the true power of MMPM/2, and make multimedia under OS/2 more useful and, more importanly, more enjoyable.
MMPack is now in its 1.0 release version, and includes the following software:
MMCHECK |
This is a utility that checks your MMPM/2 installation (i.e. MMPM2.INI) for errors or suspicious settings. If it finds any, it will tell you what they are, so that you can fix them. |
MPU-401 Driver |
This is a replacement for IBM's MPU-401 driver, which is used to MIDI support for a number of sound cards, including sound cards that use the Crystal Semiconductor drivers. Enhancements over IBM's driver include:
Click here to read the MPU-401 documentation. Please note that this is a rough draft, and it has some quirks (e.g. none of the links work). |
NPDSMI 2.0 |
An enhancement over the free DSMI Netscape plug-in, this new version supports compressed (zip and gzip) module files. |
The cost of the MMPack 1.0 is $35, which gets you the current release and all versions up to and including the official released version. Order here.
In the future, Theta Band Software will begin working on 2.0. Some of the features you can expect to see in this next release are:
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