Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
Look at the following web site: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Standard.htm There are all kinds of standards there related to optical media (CD DVD) -- both physical/media standards and software/protocol standards. Old School Yearbook Pics View Class Yearbooks Online Free. Search by School Year. Look Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5576fc7754cb07c77124ast04vuc -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
thanks On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:46:56 GMT Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com writes: Look at the following web site: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Standard.htm There are all kinds of standards there related to optical media (CD DVD) -- both physical/media standards and software/protocol standards. Old School Yearbook Pics View Class Yearbooks Online Free. Search by School Year. Look Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5576fc7754cb07c77124ast04vuc - - ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ** From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *** Old School Yearbook Pics View Class Yearbooks Online Free. Search by School Year. Look Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5576fe61b409f7e6147f8st03duc -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
I looked for books never found any. Didn't know what to search for. There are large books filled with printer commands and how to use them. Nothing for cd commands. There use to be books for modem commands really scarce now. cheers DS On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:41:37 +0200 Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de writes: On 6/8/2015 7:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public. Is there a command list published anywhere for cds. Yes, it's called ATAPI and there exist a lot of different documents for the different classes of ATAPI devices. The only non-ATAPI CD-ROM drives that I am aware of are/were those of some early Creative soundcard/CD-ROM drive combos. Those used their own subset of ATAPI commands, hence a more standard CD-ROM driver won't work, as well had their own digital audio connector that made those CD-ROM drives only work with their bundled sound cards and vice versa... The catch with the documentation however is that this is stuff that you have to buy from t13.org, the committee that defined those standards... googling 'ATAPI specification' turned up www.bswd.com/sff8020i.pdf at position 2. there are MANY other links containing the ATAPI spec. even you old time DOS guys should start to use a search engine instead of asking such (easy answered) questions on mailing lists. Tom - - ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Protect what matters Floods can happen anywhere. Learn your risk and find an agent today. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/5576e608ef9096608265amp08duc ** From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *** -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
On 6/8/2015 7:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public. Is there a command list published anywhere for cds. Yes, it's called ATAPI and there exist a lot of different documents for the different classes of ATAPI devices. The only non-ATAPI CD-ROM drives that I am aware of are/were those of some early Creative soundcard/CD-ROM drive combos. Those used their own subset of ATAPI commands, hence a more standard CD-ROM driver won't work, as well had their own digital audio connector that made those CD-ROM drives only work with their bundled sound cards and vice versa... The catch with the documentation however is that this is stuff that you have to buy from t13.org, the committee that defined those standards... googling 'ATAPI specification' turned up www.bswd.com/sff8020i.pdf at position 2. there are MANY other links containing the ATAPI spec. even you old time DOS guys should start to use a search engine instead of asking such (easy answered) questions on mailing lists. Tom -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
On 6/8/2015 7:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public. Is there a command list published anywhere for cds. Yes, it's called ATAPI and there exist a lot of different documents for the different classes of ATAPI devices. The only non-ATAPI CD-ROM drives that I am aware of are/were those of some early Creative soundcard/CD-ROM drive combos. Those used their own subset of ATAPI commands, hence a more standard CD-ROM driver won't work, as well had their own digital audio connector that made those CD-ROM drives only work with their bundled sound cards and vice versa... The catch with the documentation however is that this is stuff that you have to buy from t13.org, the committee that defined those standards... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
Hi John, http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14268 mentions a new version of the closed source variant of Jack's drivers, but it sounds as if that mainly has been tested with modern drives, suspecting that your drive uses outdated audio command dialects. In any case, maybe the update helps you? :-) Regards, Eric It could be an incorrect or buggy driver, dunno. The only way to know would be to try something else. But I'm not sure of a good alternative. I don't even know where to (reliably) find such old DOS drivers. That seems to have been the case. In my post that followed the one you replied to, I noted that I successfully replaced uide.sys with a Lite-on driver to get audio CD working. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public. Is there a command list published anywhere for cds. cheers DS On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 13:22:43 +0200 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de writes: Hi John, http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14268 mentions a new version of the closed source variant of Jack's drivers, but it sounds as if that mainly has been tested with modern drives, suspecting that your drive uses outdated audio command dialects. In any case, maybe the update helps you? :-) Regards, Eric It could be an incorrect or buggy driver, dunno. The only way to know would be to try something else. But I'm not sure of a good alternative. I don't even know where to (reliably) find such old DOS drivers. That seems to have been the case. In my post that followed the one you replied to, I noted that I successfully replaced uide.sys with a Lite-on driver to get audio CD working. - - ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Heavy rains mean flooding Anywhere it rains it can flood. Learn your risk. Get flood insurance. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/5575a367f049e236770b9mp13duc ** From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *** -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
Hi, On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14268 mentions a new version of the closed source variant of Jack's drivers, but it sounds as if that mainly has been tested with modern drives, suspecting that your drive uses outdated audio command dialects. In any case, maybe the update helps you? :-) He's basically saying that Lite-On is too old and non-standard. Thus he takes no blame nor responsibility. So it's your buggy drive's fault, not his. Apparently he thinks his drivers are flawless. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
On 04/06/2015 22:16, John Hupp wrote: But pursuing the driver-as-a-suspect angle anyway, I found a Lite-on DOS driver and installed that. CD playing now works. That's nice to now - would you mind to specify please what mode of CD-Audio is working for you exactly when using Lite-on, but not UIDE? - audio CD handled by the CD drive in hardware - audio CD played by direct data access (like MPXPLAY does) - both? Mateusz -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
Hi, I hate to dredge all of this up, but On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:16 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: I correct myself. I was using ide-cd.sys on another machine I was working with a couple weeks ago. On this machine I have been using the default uide.sys. But pursuing the driver-as-a-suspect angle anyway, I found a Lite-on DOS driver and installed that. CD playing now works. Thank you for the idea, Eric!! If there is a sad note, it is that uide.sys has fallen short on two machines in a row. On the other one, I had no CD function at all. In this one, I had data CD function, but no audio CD. John, which exact version of UIDE are you using? I'm assuming latest on iBiblio, which is Mar-05. You may want to try older versions. For that particular reason (among others), we often keep them in case of unforeseen regressions. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/old/ Actually, that's the reason I never uploaded Mar-18 for him. If you want, I can email you that version, but I doubt it's much better! You could also try his new (closed source) drivers. (Yes, he directly blames me for closing sources. Sigh. Totally imaginary offense, but hey, what can you do? Totally against FreeDOS and SourceForge, alas.) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/dos/file/drivers.zip In fact, if you're really adventurous (and a glutton for punishment), email him directly! I wouldn't really recommend it, but if you insist on knowing why they don't work (assuming you've tried all of the above), that may be your only answer. But keep in mind that Jack is not exactly a friendly person. http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=uide P.S. Honestly, I don't even want to mention any of this. It's too annoying. But, for clarity, if you really want to know, those are your only options. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
On 6/4/2015 4:29 PM, Rugxulo wrote: It could be an incorrect or buggy driver, dunno. The only way to know would be to try something else. But I'm not sure of a good alternative. I don't even know where to (reliably) find such old DOS drivers. That seems to have been the case. In my post that followed the one you replied to, I noted that I successfully replaced uide.sys with a Lite-on driver to get audio CD working. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
Thanks for the clarifications. I could add though, that I tried CDROM2 PLAY01 F: and it responded with something like F: is not an audio drive, but F: is. The CD-ROM cable is known working (confirmed via Win 98), and I turned up the CD volume in the sound card mixer. But it may be that the drive lacks the built-in audio playing function that your program requires. It has a headphone jack and volume dial, but no Play/Stop/Next/Previous controls like older drives did. (It's a 48x CD-ROM, a Lite-on LTN-485S manufactured in 2000.) I hadn't thought about the CD driver as a suspect. A couple weeks ago I had a thread named For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready in which I detailed my struggles with getting a working configuration. I'm currently using a driver named ide-cd.sys. I don't know where it came from originally, but I used it successfully on a machine a few years ago. Your alternative way is also referred to as digital audio extraction? I understood from Mateusz Viste that mpxplay will do that, though I don't know how and haven't pursued that. I think it may require a plugin (CDW). He also said it would draw more heavily on the CPU -- and this machine only has a Pentium 150. On 6/4/2015 1:13 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi! With cdrom2ui, I ran these two commands: CDROM2 PLAY01 F: CDROM PLAY01 F: In both cases it responded Error reading from drive F: data area: drive not ready. Only the larger CDROM2 tool supports audio commands and you have to omit the , so the proper command would be: CDROM2 PLAY01 F: However, this only tells the drive to use the built-in audio playing function which modern drives might lack. The sound gets output to the headphone jack of your CD drive (if it has the connector) and the output for 3- or 4-pin cables to your soundcard or mainboard (if it has that). If you use the latter output, you also have to have a cable connected and the volume control on your soundcard properly set. Last but not least, not all drivers of CD/DVD/BluRay drives might support audio commands. The alternative way is to read out the raw audio data and then either store that as WAV, convert it to OGG or MP3, or play it directly. I think this is now the more common way of accessing audio on CD via a PC :-) Regards, Eric -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
Hi! With cdrom2ui, I ran these two commands: CDROM2 PLAY01 F: CDROM PLAY01 F: In both cases it responded Error reading from drive F: data area: drive not ready. Only the larger CDROM2 tool supports audio commands and you have to omit the , so the proper command would be: CDROM2 PLAY01 F: However, this only tells the drive to use the built-in audio playing function which modern drives might lack. The sound gets output to the headphone jack of your CD drive (if it has the connector) and the output for 3- or 4-pin cables to your soundcard or mainboard (if it has that). If you use the latter output, you also have to have a cable connected and the volume control on your soundcard properly set. Last but not least, not all drivers of CD/DVD/BluRay drives might support audio commands. The alternative way is to read out the raw audio data and then either store that as WAV, convert it to OGG or MP3, or play it directly. I think this is now the more common way of accessing audio on CD via a PC :-) Regards, Eric -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
On 6/4/2015 7:43 AM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:16 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working. I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got the sound card working in Windows. I also established how to connect the standard 4-pin audio CD connector on the CD-ROM drive with the non-standard 3-pin connector on the sound card, and CD Player then worked in Windows. But when I returned to FreeDOS with this now-known-good cable connection, my two CD players still failed just as before. I'd like to test with different CD players than CD-V and ACP. Suggestions? I haven't used a lot of CDs on my computers in recent years. So I'm somewhat out of touch. The two that immediately come to mind are these: 1). http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/cdrom2ui.zip That one's cmdline only, extremely minimal. 2). http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/software/sjgplay/sjgplay_dos.html That's an old favorite (not that I ever did karaoke, but it's a cool feature). With cdrom2ui, I ran these two commands: CDROM2 PLAY01 F: CDROM PLAY01 F: In both cases it responded Error reading from drive F: data area: drive not ready. But the CD plays elsewhere. Nonetheless I tried another CD with the same result. This same drive works fine for data CD's, and it works fine for audio CD's in Windows. With sjgplay, the auto-scan seems to fail. It uses drive a:, reports 1 track only, and the CD title is the generic CD00.CD. If I run sjgplay on the same hardware under Win 98 in a DOS window, it plays just fine. So both of these players seem not to see the drive. And CD-V reported Invalid media! Could all the players I tried be requiring MSCDEX, and failing with SHSUCDX? -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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Hi, On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:16 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working. I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got the sound card working in Windows. I also established how to connect the standard 4-pin audio CD connector on the CD-ROM drive with the non-standard 3-pin connector on the sound card, and CD Player then worked in Windows. But when I returned to FreeDOS with this now-known-good cable connection, my two CD players still failed just as before. I'd like to test with different CD players than CD-V and ACP. Suggestions? I haven't used a lot of CDs on my computers in recent years. So I'm somewhat out of touch. The two that immediately come to mind are these: 1). http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/cdrom2ui.zip That one's cmdline only, extremely minimal. 2). http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/software/sjgplay/sjgplay_dos.html That's an old favorite (not that I ever did karaoke, but it's a cool feature). -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
I correct myself. I was using ide-cd.sys on another machine I was working with a couple weeks ago. On this machine I have been using the default uide.sys. But pursuing the driver-as-a-suspect angle anyway, I found a Lite-on DOS driver and installed that. CD playing now works. Thank you for the idea, Eric!! If there is a sad note, it is that uide.sys has fallen short on two machines in a row. On the other one, I had no CD function at all. In this one, I had data CD function, but no audio CD. On 6/4/2015 2:06 PM, John Hupp wrote: Thanks for the clarifications. I could add though, that I tried CDROM2 PLAY01 F: and it responded with something like F: is not an audio drive, but F: is. The CD-ROM cable is known working (confirmed via Win 98), and I turned up the CD volume in the sound card mixer. But it may be that the drive lacks the built-in audio playing function that your program requires. It has a headphone jack and volume dial, but no Play/Stop/Next/Previous controls like older drives did. (It's a 48x CD-ROM, a Lite-on LTN-485S manufactured in 2000.) I hadn't thought about the CD driver as a suspect. A couple weeks ago I had a thread named For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready in which I detailed my struggles with getting a working configuration. I'm currently using a driver named ide-cd.sys. I don't know where it came from originally, but I used it successfully on a machine a few years ago. Your alternative way is also referred to as digital audio extraction? I understood from Mateusz Viste that mpxplay will do that, though I don't know how and haven't pursued that. I think it may require a plugin (CDW). He also said it would draw more heavily on the CPU -- and this machine only has a Pentium 150. On 6/4/2015 1:13 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi! With cdrom2ui, I ran these two commands: CDROM2 PLAY01 F: CDROM PLAY01 F: In both cases it responded Error reading from drive F: data area: drive not ready. Only the larger CDROM2 tool supports audio commands and you have to omit the , so the proper command would be: CDROM2 PLAY01 F: However, this only tells the drive to use the built-in audio playing function which modern drives might lack. The sound gets output to the headphone jack of your CD drive (if it has the connector) and the output for 3- or 4-pin cables to your soundcard or mainboard (if it has that). If you use the latter output, you also have to have a cable connected and the volume control on your soundcard properly set. Last but not least, not all drivers of CD/DVD/BluRay drives might support audio commands. The alternative way is to read out the raw audio data and then either store that as WAV, convert it to OGG or MP3, or play it directly. I think this is now the more common way of accessing audio on CD via a PC :-) Regards, Eric -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
Hi, On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:06 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: Thanks for the clarifications. I could add though, that I tried CDROM2 PLAY01 F: and it responded with something like F: is not an audio drive, but F: is. The CD-ROM cable is known working (confirmed via Win 98), and I turned up the CD volume in the sound card mixer. Do you think that's the problem?? Then try this: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/sbmix/sbmixb.zip But what exactly are your (Win98 and DOS) CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT relevant lines? Maybe you used some incorrect settings. But it may be that the drive lacks the built-in audio playing function that your program requires. It has a headphone jack and volume dial, but no Play/Stop/Next/Previous controls like older drives did. (It's a 48x CD-ROM, a Lite-on LTN-485S manufactured in 2000.) No idea about hardware limitations. I hadn't thought about the CD driver as a suspect. A couple weeks ago I had a thread named For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready in which I detailed my struggles with getting a working configuration. I'm currently using a driver named ide-cd.sys. I don't know where it came from originally, but I used it successfully on a machine a few years ago. It could be an incorrect or buggy driver, dunno. The only way to know would be to try something else. But I'm not sure of a good alternative. I don't even know where to (reliably) find such old DOS drivers. As much as I think the term Linux is overused and less useful than implied (*especially* for legacy hardware), there are some ancient distros which are fairly lean. My point is that you could try and see if they work (with their drivers), or at least to tell you more about your actual hardware. One old (2006) but good example is the two-floppy BlueFlops: http://blueflops.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/blueflops/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/blueflops/files/blueflops/blueflops-2.0.15/blueflops-2.0.15.zip/download I know you say Win98 works fine, but if even Linux doesn't work, then I don't think DOS has much chance (anymore, since everyone abandons / forgets everything old). Granted, if Win98 isn't good enough, neither is Linux, but I'm just saying ... I'm curious whether even that works for you! Your alternative way is also referred to as digital audio extraction? I understood from Mateusz Viste that mpxplay will do that, though I don't know how and haven't pursued that. I think it may require a plugin (CDW). He also said it would draw more heavily on the CPU -- and this machine only has a Pentium 150. I could be wrong, but I think Eric means you should rip whatever audio you want into .mp3 locally, which can then be played without needing direct CD access at all. For example, this is what the DJGPP port of Hexen2 supports (although you can't rip from DOS itself). Of course, you'll still need a DOS-friendly soundcard (or use DOSEMU or DOSBox or similar). -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working. I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got the sound card working in Windows. I also established how to connect the standard 4-pin audio CD connector on the CD-ROM drive with the non-standard 3-pin connector on the sound card, and CD Player then worked in Windows. But when I returned to FreeDOS with this now-known-good cable connection, my two CD players still failed just as before. I'd like to test with different CD players than CD-V and ACP. Suggestions? On 6/3/2015 6:30 PM, John Hupp wrote: It turns out that mpxplay was not hanging as I thought. It was instead taking 30 seconds to load. It turns out further that the precise format of the BLASTER variable is important here. The Media Vision installer created SET BLASTER=A220 D1 I5 H3 T4. But mpxplay was choking on the fact that D1 was before I5. When I edited the string to SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H3 T4 instead, the player loaded in a second or two! == So now all I need to do is get a CD player working. On 6/2/2015 3:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: I have sound working now with a Media Vision Jazz16 card (aka Pro Sonic 16, an ISA PNP card) and DOOM, setting up the game to use the card's SoundBlaster emulation feature. The Jazz directory also has a playfile.exe utility and a few test WAV's, and these work. But so far I have gotten nowhere with playing mp3's or CD's. I'm starting with some apps that worked for me under FreeDOS 0.9 and/or 1.0. Mpxplay just hangs the system immediately, before anything appears onscreen. I downloaded the MPXP160D.ZIP version. Likewise I have not gotten any audio CD player to work. I tried ACP and CD-V (v19) so far. ACP's screen appears with a track list, but hitting enter to to start Playing the first track does nothing. CD-V simply generates an Invalid media! error. (I could add that the CD setup is fine for data CD's.) 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. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work
It occurs to me that at least some of the CD players have D: hard-coded as the drive location. If you had a suggestion for which that was configurable, that might help. On 6/3/2015 9:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working. I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got the sound card working in Windows. I also established how to connect the standard 4-pin audio CD connector on the CD-ROM drive with the non-standard 3-pin connector on the sound card, and CD Player then worked in Windows. But when I returned to FreeDOS with this now-known-good cable connection, my two CD players still failed just as before. I'd like to test with different CD players than CD-V and ACP. Suggestions? On 6/3/2015 6:30 PM, John Hupp wrote: It turns out that mpxplay was not hanging as I thought. It was instead taking 30 seconds to load. It turns out further that the precise format of the BLASTER variable is important here. The Media Vision installer created SET BLASTER=A220 D1 I5 H3 T4. But mpxplay was choking on the fact that D1 was before I5. When I edited the string to SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H3 T4 instead, the player loaded in a second or two! == So now all I need to do is get a CD player working. On 6/2/2015 3:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: I have sound working now with a Media Vision Jazz16 card (aka Pro Sonic 16, an ISA PNP card) and DOOM, setting up the game to use the card's SoundBlaster emulation feature. The Jazz directory also has a playfile.exe utility and a few test WAV's, and these work. But so far I have gotten nowhere with playing mp3's or CD's. I'm starting with some apps that worked for me under FreeDOS 0.9 and/or 1.0. Mpxplay just hangs the system immediately, before anything appears onscreen. I downloaded the MPXP160D.ZIP version. Likewise I have not gotten any audio CD player to work. I tried ACP and CD-V (v19) so far. ACP's screen appears with a track list, but hitting enter to to start Playing the first track does nothing. CD-V simply generates an Invalid media! error. (I could add that the CD setup is fine for data CD's.) 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. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
