On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:08:14 +0200 (CEST), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Sam Ewalt asked me:
>> Since you have helped with the development of Arachne perhaps you can
>> tell us *if* any further development is currently planned?
>> Or is Arachne on long term hiatus?
> Not that I know what "hiatus" means (please remember that not all of us
> have english as our first language), but AFAIK development isn't planned
> - it's underway.
> Planned things are:
> JS, SSL, and everything else in the docs.
> What I assume Michael is working on is:
> JS, SSL (perhaps), and most importantly a "glue" to make Arachne easily
> portable for various platforms - including those threading Arachne. This
> is where someone should remind me that not everyone here are programmers
> ;-)
> And seemingly I'm working on WAP support ;-)
Lest we forget....
We also have "amateur programmers/integraters" (such-as glennmcc) ;-)
Who has just added this little "integration of an outside program"
into Arachne.
1) grab http://www.multimediaware.com/mpeg/mpeg.zip
2) unzip it into your Arachne_main directory
3) place these 4 lines at the top of mime.cfg
video/mpeg MPG|mpeg.exe -b -c -n -j200,150 -x0 -y100 -o15 $1
video/x-mpeg MPE|mpeg.exe -b -c -n -j200,150 -x0 -y100 -o15 $1
file/.mpg |mpeg.exe -b -c -n -j200,150 -x0 -y100 -o15 $1
file/.mpe |mpeg.exe -b -c -n -j200,150 -x0 -y100 -o15 $1
Now, any MPEG we link to will be played in a 200x150 "window"
all the way to left of our screen down 100 pixels from the top.
*** known problem ****
The screen colors will be messed-up if a hicolor or truecolor Mpeg
is played when Arachne is set for 256 color mode.
However,
The colors come back to normal after the Mpeg has finished playing.
****************
Screen-cap:
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/mpegs_on_arachne_screen.jpg
***** Added bonus ****
file://f:/graphics/mpeg/*.mpg
Will play all mpg files in that directory one right after the other.
file://f:/graphics/mpeg/m*.mpg
Will play all mpg files beginning with "m" in that directory one right
after the other.
ESC at any time will stop the player and return control to Arachne.
Bernie prefers to add the "-z0" option so that moving the mouse will
stop the player.
My mouse didn't stop it with -z0 so I tried -z1 and that worked.
Anyone who would like this "feature" may use these lines instead.
video/mpeg MPG|mpeg.exe -b -c -n -j200,150 -x0 -y100 -o15 -z0 $1
video/x-mpeg MPE|mpeg.exe -b -c -n -j200,150 -x0 -y100 -o15 -z0 $1
file/.mpg |mpeg.exe -b -c -n -j200,150 -x0 -y100 -o15 -z0 $1
file/.mpe |mpeg.exe -b -c -n -j200,150 -x0 -y100 -o15 -z0 $1
(try 0, 1, 2 and 3 to see which one works with your mouse)
--
Glenn
http://arachne.cz/
http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
