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Warpvision GUI 20040820

From: "Mark Dodel"

Web site: http://os2.kiev.ua/en/wv.php
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Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui20040820.zip

The goal of the WarpVision project is to create an OS/2 multimedia player that supports the latest formats, as well as the latest hardware features.

Changes in this release:
20.08.2004

 A lot of fixes and bugs
 New subtitles look-and-feel (thanks to KO Myung-Hun )
 Inroduced Plugins API
 Added DART Audio Out plugin
 Added UNIAUD Audio Out plugin. Now multichannel works on SB Live and other cards, haveing multichannel and supported by UNIAUD
 Added DUMP Audio Out plugin. It is not requires sound card and produces pure PCM stream, usually coming right to sound card
 Added AC3 demuxer
 Fixed strange behavior of some DVD disks (unsynced and clicking/cracking sound)
 Improved DVD error recovery (bad blocks etc). Now it skip some sectors right after bad sector. recovering is very fast now and doesnt freezes wvgui
 Fixed bug in Uniaud plugin. Coused sound skipping on rates != 48000Hz on some adapters
 Added DTS support
 Added changing of fullscreen coordinates
 When playing DVD doubleclick on < and click on > buttons now seek thru chapters on current title

Status
The WarpVision Player is currently undergoing development, but in the interim you can download the beta versions. All of the work on this project is done in spare time and is distributed under GNU licencing guidelines. If you know of some new features that you'd like to see implemented, or even if you'd just like to do something nice for the authors, you can always make a financial contribution! To find out how you can help the WarpVision team, please mail us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Also you can make your donation to WarpVision Project on Mensys site.
http://shop.mensys.nl/uk/warpvision

Current Features

* Video playback of all of the major formats (DVD, DivX-3, DivX-4, DivX-5, XViD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, ASF and Quicktime/Sorenson v1)
* Audio playback of all of the major formats (AC3, PCM, MP3, WMA)
* Hardware-accelerated playback of supported formats (through use of HW EnDIVE driver or WarpOverlay!), with acurate sync for fast & slow CPUs
* Decoding has been optimized through support of enhanced instruction sets (3D-Now!, MMX, MMX2, SSE, MMXEXT)
* DVD options include selection of DVD title, angle, chapter, subtitle language, soundtrack language (even select from multiple instances of the same language)
* Accelerated fullscreen and windowed playback, as well as the ability to play as a desktop's wallpaper (Out to Desktop function)
* Switchable 4:3/16:9/4:3 with clipped edges (via GUI or hotkeys), option to maintain aspect ratio (during dynamic resize of windows and in fullscreen mode)
* On-the-fly snap-to (zoom) 1:1, 2:2, 3:3, 4:4 and 5:5 through menu or hotkeys
* Media seek via scroll-wheel (including wireless keyboard scrollwheel), hotkeys or GUI slider
* Four-channel and six-channel audio support
* Extensive named pipe control
* Autodetection of colour encoding scheme, auto-conversion between schemes to YUY422 done using enhanced instruction sets
* Tons of postprocessing options
* Skin support (BMP and PNG format)
* Playlist functionality includes support for creation and use of WinAmp playlists, as well as the ability to autoload the last-used playlist on startup
* Saves the last position stopped at during playback, for resuming from that point at a later time
* Displays current position in the playing media, and alternately displays the current local time (in the GUI, when media isn't playing)
* On-the-fly sliders, commandline controls and hotkeys for setting of brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, gamma correction and volume
* Resampling of audio to 44.1kHz or 48kHz, to facilitate support of various audio chipsets
* Ability to easily change thread priority (class and delta)
* Any commandline options set for the WarpVision CLI are stored and used automatically on next execution

Source: OS2VOICE

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