Re: [Freedos-user] Getting mpxplay and any CD player to work

[John H. <fr...@pr...>]

I saw little in mpxplay.ini that seemed like it was capable of 
immediately hanging the system.  I commented out UseLFN to no effect.  I 
also changed SoundCardName from AUTO to S16, and mpxplay reported that 
it could not initialize the card or a message to that effect.  Then I 
changed that to SBP and it hung as before.

On 6/2/2015 4:59 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> Also, the cable is needed only if the player uses the CD-player audio
> capabilities. MPXPLAY does not, it reads and processes audio tracks
> himself instead.
>
> You will need to fiddle with your mpxplay.ini file for sure. But as for
> a 'CD Player that works with FreeDOS', I'd say that pretty much any
> player should work. Have you tried any yet, beside mpxplay?
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
> On 02/06/2015 22:42, John Hupp wrote:
>> On 6/2/2015 4:16 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>>> On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>>>> Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay to work?  What about a CD player
>>>> that's known to work with FD 1.1?
>>>>
>>>> I'm using a default FD 1.1 setup and selecting the first menu item at boot.
>>>>
>>> Just to cover all the bases, and probably unrelated to the direct
>>> software problems, you need to have a cable connecting your CD drive
>>> directly to your sound card in order to play audio DVDs. That's however
>>> not necessary to play MP3 files (which are just data files)...
>>>
>>> http://superuser.com/questions/566611/sound-output-connector-on-cd-rom-drive
>>>
>>> Ralf
>> Hah!  I did indeed forget to reconnect the cable during the various trials.
>>
>> But as you also note, it is unrelated to the software problems.  I still
>> get nothing with the cable connected.
>>
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