#amigazeux FAQs (frequently-asked questions)

YES - but only if someone creates a shared library for it for us! But there are more complications. The source available currently will only play old Real streams - not the newer ones used by 99% of modern Real stations. Proprietary formats are near-impossible to support.

Anyway, Real Audio is very poor and we are told it is not used by anyone who knows anything about sound. Realplayer channels are also usually over-commercialised crap, so it's no great loss.

They suck. :) But again, if someone wants to supply us with a standard MorphOS/AmigaOS shared library, perhaps built from ffmpeg or mplayer source, we could easily add support for it.

We were unable to add any, since none of us have mpeg decoder hardware. It may be possible to add mpeg.device support, but ANR would need pretty much a TOTAL rewrite. And after it, nothing much in ANR would work on hardware decoding - scopes, fast forward, saving. The problem is that the decoded data cannot be returned to ANR to be processed. And that makes ANR no better than the software that comes with the hardware already.

So it's not going to happen. You'll just have to use the software that came with your hardware, sorry.

But there is a workaround. Have a look at the "hardware decoding supplement" in the guide.

Nope. Unless you use MorphOS. That's if Genesi ever get round to releasing the BPPC/CPPC version of it. :-/

No, most of the CPU intensive stuff is in 3rd party libs. If you have a slow system and can't use ANR, I'm afraid you'll just have to upgrade. Playing mp3 needs CPU power. We can't change this.

No. It makes no sense for a shoutcast client. Use SongPlayer for that. Anyway, karaoke is evil and I'm frankly insulted you mentioned it. Just listen for ticking in your mail from now on, ok?

Err, what? No. ANR is a player, not file sharing client or a search engine. The shoutcast station search is courtesy of Shoutcast.com.

No. This is quite a silly question. Once again, ANR is a player, not a server. Besides, we have no mp3 encoder shared library and mp3 encoding is patented. Just use it as a player, that's what it's for!

No. UADE is a Linux port that works only in shell. A player was tried but was very buggy and didn't work properly due to UADE lacking a mechanism to exchange data with ANR. If UADE is updated to include such a mechanism, then the chances of a return are good. Otherwise, there's little chance.