(Posted by Timothy Sipples) (js)

For anyone interested in the ability to play multiple multimedia format with OS/2 Warp, I'd like to draw your attention to a great little utility called QuickView for DOS.

Yes, that's right -- DOS! (Which means it runs beautifully under OS/2 Warp, of course.)
You can get QuickView for DOS (shareware evaluation copy) by visiting the homepage and also find out more about licensing QuickView source code. (Perhaps someone would like to develop a native player and/or plug-in? QuickView runs in a full screen DOS session, and for best results you'll need to make sure you have an audio adapter which supports SoundBlaster-type audio in DOS sessions. You should also follow the instructions in the QuickView documentation to change the DOS session's settings.

Here's a list of the multimedia formats supported by QuickView for DOS:

Video formats:

  • .AVI: Sound can be either PCM, Microsoft ADPCM, IMA ADPCM, A-law, u-law, GSM 6.10 and Audio MPEG incl. MP3.
  • .MOV: Sound can be "raw", "twos", A-law, u-law, IMA ADPCM or GSM 6.10.
    Supported video codecs for AVI and MOV:
    Cinepak [cvid] (8 and 24 bit)
    CLJR [cljr] (24 bit)
    Creative Video Blaster [cyuv] (16 bit)
    DIB (4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit)
    Indeo(tm) 3.1, 3.2 and 5 [IV31, IV32 and IV50] (24 bit)
    I420 (24 bit)
    IYUV (24 bit)
    Motion JPEG [MJPG] (24 bit)
    MS Video 1 [msvc] (8 and 16 bit)
    OpenDivX [divx] (24 bit, requires MMX)
    QPEG [QPEG] (V1.0 and 1.1, 8 bit)
    Rainbow Runner [dmb1] (24 bit)
    RLE (8 bit)
    Ultimotion (OS/2 AVIs) [ULTI] (16 bit)
    VYUY (24 bit)
    Y41P (24 bit)
    V422 (24 bit)
    YUY2 (24 bit)
    YV12 (24 bit)
    YVU9 (24 bit)
    Apple codecs:
    Animation [rle] (1, 4, 8, 16 and 24 bit)
    BMP [WRLE] (4, 8 and 24 bit)
    Component [YUV2] (24 bit)
    Graphics [smc] (8 bit)
    JPEG [jpeg] (24 bit)
    Motion JPEG A [MJPA] (24 bit)
    None [raw] (4, 8 and 24 bit)
    Planar RGB [8BPS] (grayscale, 8, 24 and 32 bit)
    Video [rpza] (16 bit, only HiColor Playback)
  • .DL: Versions 1,2 and partly 3
  • .CEL (Original Animator CEL Files)
  • .FLC
  • .FLI
  • .GIF animations
  • .MPG
  • .M1V
  • .MPE
  • .MPV
  • .DAT: MPEG 1 video files. DAT files are files from the VideoCD that are usually named AVSEQ01.DAT and so on.
  • VideoCDs and CD-i (partly) are supported using the -VCD command.

    Picture formats:

  • .BMP:uncompressed: 1, 4, 8, 16 and 24 color bits, RLE compressed: 4 and 8 color bits including OS/2 bitmaps, furthermore all kindred formats: .RLE,
  • .DIB, .BGA, .VGA, .RLE, .RL4, .RL8
  • .GIF:1-8 color bits, GIF 87a and GIF 89a extensions
  • .JPG
  • .JIF
  • .JPE:Baseline and Progressive JPEG, with grayscale, YCrCb or RGB color space.
  • .PCX:1-4, 8 and 24 color bits
  • .TGA uncompressed: 8, 15, 16 and 24 color bits, black & white RLE compressed: 8, 15, 16 and 24 color bits, black & white

    Sound formats:
  • .MP1
  • .MP2
  • .MP3: Audio MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5, Layer 1,2 and 3
  • .VOC
  • .WAV: Supported audio codecs are: PCM, Microsoft ADPCM, IMA ADPCM, Creative Labs ADPCM, A-law, u-law, GSM 6.10, MPEG Audio

    It looks like QuickView's authors are tracking the OpenDivX code pretty closely, so perhaps someday we'll have a DOS DVD player. :-)

    http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/

    Source: OS/2 ORG

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