qtamp-0.6 (MP3 Player)

Introduction

amp (Audio Mpeg Player) is an MPEG audio decoder which I originally started

putting together as a side project of the MPEG hardware design project at FER/Zagreb - just to confirm my knowledge of the standard. It works with both MPEG1 and MPEG2 audio streams (except for the multichannel extensions defined in MPEG2), layers 2 and 3.

There is a gui for amp, written in Tcl/Tk by Edouard Lafargue. It is available at the amp home site ftp://ftp.rasip.fer.hr

Another gui supported is the Sajber Jukebox, written by Joel Lindholm.

The following people contributed their time and knowledge to amp: Karl Anders Oygard, Ilkka Karvinen, Lutz Vieweg, Dan Nelson, Edouard Lafargue, Andrew Richards, George Colouris, Dmitry Boldyrev, Andy Lo A Foe, Thomas Sailer, Justin Frankel

amp home location is ftp://ftp.rasip.fer.hr/pub/mpeg/

and the mailing list: send 'HELP' in the body of the message to: multimedia@rasip.fer.hr

If you want to find out more about MPEG, best places to start are http://www.mpeg.org http://www.mpeg2.de

Installation

Installation should be simple enough if amp was ported to your system, just do a

# ./configure
# make

Usage

usage: amp [options] [ MPEG audio streams... ]
       amp -convert [ MPEG-audio stream ] [ output file ]

  -h, -help           display this usage information and exit
  -v, -version        display the version information and exit
  -c, -convert        convert the MPEG audio stream to output file format
  -p, -play           play the specified MPEG audio streams (default action)
  -q, -quiet          supress printing of messages to STDERR
  -b, -buffer size    set the audio buffer size to size k
  -d, -dump           dump binary data to STDERR
  -s, -frame          show a frame counter
  -t, -time           show time
  -g, -gui            output messages to stdout instead of stderr
                      (for use with xmpeg3 or similar GUIs)
  -w                  wav output
      -downmix        downmix stereo streams to one channel
      -nobuffer       do not use an audio buffer
      -volume vol   set the volume to vol (0-100)
      -debug opts.. When compiled in debug opt, opt2,... code sections
                      Options: audio,args,buffer,buffer2,misc,misc2

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