Re: [Mpg123-users] Device Name under windows?

[Thomas O. <tho...@or...>]

Am Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:49:42 +0100
schrieb "Daniel Meier" <dan...@gm...>: 

> I want to play the mp3-files with other devices under windows. But where can
> I find the right device-names under windows?

Do you mean a cygwin build of mpg123?
This uses a generic /dev/dsp from the viewpoint of mpg123, the cygwin library transforms that to the Windows audio api.
You can select different default audio devices using some windows system setting (system control ... sounds and multimedia ... preferred audio device...).
It's not that common under Windows for an audio app to select the audio device... It doesn't seem to be possible for the cygwin mpg123 build I have here (trying if the cygwin lib translates /dev/dsp1 to the second sound device).

Well, perhaps mpg123 could choose audio devices under Windows if we reactivated the native Windows support (and/or use something like portaudio).
But that won't happen when we don't have a windows developer box (ms visual C, borland C ...) and the spare time and will to work on that.
It needs someone who actually works with windows to really support it - until then, a build using cygwin works fine.
You can use the resulting mpg123.exe and the cygwin1.dll and use that as standalone binary package, not _so_ much to gain from the native build - perhaps the ability to select audio devices other than the windows default device.


Thomas.