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Audio Libraries & Utilities
724mix — Simple mixer with text interface for YMF724 sound cards.
"724mix is a simple mixer with a textmode interface for YMF724-based sound cards. It also supports YMF724-compatible chips such as YMF740, YMF744 and YMF754. This mixer works in aggressive mode only - sets are constantly resent to a hardware audio codec of the sound card. You can choose the delay between sendings by changing 'Resend delay' parameter in sets of 724mix. A bigger delay provide a lower cpu usage, but may way to longer periods of a wrong sound level. The default delay is 100 msecs. 724mix can switch some AC'97 compatible features such as 'Mono to Stereo' (Simulated Stereo), 'Bass Boost' (Loudness), '3D Mode' (3D Stereo Enhancement) in case if an audio codec of the sound card supports this features. Else messages 'Not supported by the CODEC' or 'No 3D Stereo Enhancement' will be written."
Author: Anton Malykh, Russia (2000-2001).
2001-02-15: v0.2.
Find 724mix20.zip (33.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util/mixers.
AACgain — Utility to adjust volume of mp3 and aac files.
Authors: David Lasker / Altos Design, Inc. (2004-2010); OS/2 port by Gianfilippo Cimmino, Italy (2017).
2010-08-02: v1.9.
Go to the AACgain website for version changes.
Agathon
"The Agathon PM Synth is a simple tool for playing music on OS/2 Warp. It allows you to play music on your sound card by using the PC keyboard as a MIDI keyboard. This is crude, but quite enjoyable for people wanting to experiment without buying a full MIDI keyboard. Songs can be recorded in up to 16 tracks, played back and saved to disk for keeping to a later date."
Package includes sample files.
Author: Harald Eilertsen, Norway (1997).
1997-05-19: Beta 2.
Find agathon.zip (50.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/music/midi/keyboard.
Aiff2Wav
"Aiff2Wav is an OS/2 Presentation Manager program that converts AIFF (Audio Interchange Format) files (used on macOS) to WAVE format (used on clones)."
Author: Jeff Glatt (1995).
1995-09-01: v1.0.
Find aiff2wav.zip (32.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/convert.
CDEXPLOR — The Compact Disc Digital Audio Explorer.
Author: David C. Thomas for IBM (1992-1995).
1995-02-05: v2.4. Free under IBM EWS license.
Find cdexpl.zip (56.9K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/cd/player.
ChordPro — Printing Lyrics with Chords.
ChordPro is an evoluted version of Chord. It takes a text file with musical chord descriptions and outputs a Postscript file with typesetted music, chords, chord definitions. It can also transpose music and has other facilities.
Authors: original Chord by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion (1992-2009); ChordPro by Johan Vromans, Adam Monsen et al. (2008-2013); OS/2 port by Mentore Siesto, Italy (2011). Chord: Free under GPL 2.0 license with restrictions. Chordii: Free under GPL 3.0 license.
2013-06-19: Chordii v4.5.1.
Go to the Chordii website for a deprecation notice. See also the SourceForge Project Page for downloads.
CUE/WAV Extract Utility
"This is a utility for batch extraction of individual tracks from .CUE/.WAV audio disk images, which for instance, are created by Exact Audio Copy software."
Authors: George Yohng (2005-2009); OS/2 port by Gianfilippo Cimmino, Italy (2015).
2009-01-11: v1.1. Public Domain.
Go to the CUE/WAV Extract Utility website for compiled binaries for Windows and macOS, screenshot and source code.
ESS Audio Mixer
Author: Oleg Deribas, Russia (1997).
1997-04-10: v1.3.
Find essmix13.zip (55.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util/mixers.
Flacon — Audio File Encoder.
"Flacon extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and saves them as separate audio files.
To do this, it uses information from the appropriate CUE file. Besides, Flacon makes it possible to conveniently revise or specify tags both for all tracks at once or for each tag separately."
Authors: Alexander Sokolov, Russia (2012-2022); OS/2 port by Gianfilippo Cimmino, Italy (2015).
2016-01-31: v2.0.1 - Last version for OS/2. Free under LGPL 2.1 license.
Go to the Flacon website for screenshots, downloads for other OSes and more.
Gravis Ultrasound Mixer
"This is a simple line mixer for the Gravis Ultrasound. It allows the user to enable and disable the input and output lines on their Ultrasound card."
Note: It requires OS/2 2.x (with Presentation Manager installed) to run.
Author: Robert Turner, Canada (1994).
1994-04-06: v1.1.
Find gusmix11.zip (25.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util/mixers.
Kexis — Lossless WAV file compressor.
"Kexis' main goal is to develop prediction and encoding schemes to minimize compressed file size. Kexis strives to be the premier lossless sound encoder."
Authors: Wayde Milas (2000); OS/2 port by Bartosz Tomasik, Poland (2002).
2000-08-29: v0.2.2. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Find kexis-0_2_2.zip (60K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/convert.
LAME — A high quality MP3 encoder.
LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding.
Authors: Mark Taylor, Michael Cheng et al. (1998-2017); OS/2 ports by Nick Burch (2001); Oliver Cremer, Germany (2013-2018); Myung-Hun Ko, South Korea (2008-2018); Érico Mascarenhas Mendonça, Brazil (2001); Paul Smedley, Australia (2003); Alex Strelnikov, Russia (2004-2006); Michael Such, France (2002).
2017-10-13: v3.100. Free under LGPL 2.1 license.
Go to the LAME website for downloads for other OSes, source code, docs and more.
libvpx
The WebM Codec SDK allows you to integrate your applications with the VP8 and VP9 video codecs, high quality, royalty free, open source codecs deployed on billions of computers and devices worldwide.
Authors: Google LLC et al. (2010-2022); OS/2 port by Myung-Hun Ko, South Korea (2012-2019).
2019-01-31: v1.8.0 Northern Shoveler Duck - Last version for OS/2. Free under 'Modified' BSD License.
Get newer versions for other OSes, wiki, source code and more at the WebM Project website.
MadCast
"I have MP3 station in our local network and many VBR-encoded MP3 files. I'm very lazy to re-encode it as normal CBR mp3's and this is main reason why I had to write this little program."
Package contains C source code.
Author: Dmitry V. Zakharov, Russia (2002).
2002-06-16: v0.0.1.
Find madcast.zip (23.9K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound.
Master Volume Direct Set Utility
Author: TEAM MMOS/2 TOKYO Multimedia Communications!, Japan (1996-2001).
2000-06-26: v1.0.0.
Find mvoldpm.zip (22.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util/mixers.
Minta — MP3 information, tagging and listing PM- utility.
"Minta is an MP3 information, tagging and listing utility for OS/2. It displays information for MP3 audio files, allows adding and removing of ID3-tags (v1.0/v1.1) which provide the ability to store Title, Artist, Album etc. with the file and are used by many MP3 players and can output all files with (user selectable parts of) their info to listfiles.
Minta allows easy editing of multiple files, either one by one or all at once. Among its various features, the program provides an easy-to-use PM interface, WPS support and a broad range of configuration options."
Package contains C source code.
Author: Thorsten Thielen, Germany (1998-2003).
2003-01-12: v2.52. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Find minta252.zip (720.9K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/util or download it from the author's site.
mp3asm — MP3 file tester/assembler.
Authors: Oliver Fromme, Germany (1997); OS/2 port by Oleg Titov, Russia (1997).
1997-10-05: v0.1.
Find mp3asm01.zip (30.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/util.
Mup — Musical Publisher.
Mup (Musical Publisher) is a little command-line program which reads an ASCII file containing specific directives and gives in output brilliant PostScript files containing musical scores with notes, staffs, clefs, tempo and key signature, with many features and facilities.
Authors: Arkkra Enterprises (1995-2017); OS/2 port by Mentore Siesto, Italy (2016).
2015-12-12: v6.4 - Last version for OS/2. Free under 'Modified' BSD License.
MyMP3 — PM App that edits ID3 Tag of preselected .mp3 files.
"The ID3 tag is the binary string, placed at the end of the mp3 file. The string contains the song title, artist, album, year of release, a comment and the genre (once you fill it in). It may be empty (just spaces recorded) or non-existant on some files.
This program is my small contribution to help make editing & renaming MP3 Files easier; Useful after downloading files, copying files from friends or after grabbing music from your own collection."
Author: Charles Cohen, Canada (2001).
2001-01-10: Unnumbered release.
Find mymp3.zip (133.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/util.
OplID — Detect presence of OPL FM-sound chips.
"This is a little utility that will identify if and what kind of OPL chip you have on your system. Any OPL chip is assumed to be at port 389."
Package contains a bound executable for OS/2 and DOS.
Author: François D. Ménard, Canada (1994).
1994-06-05: v1.0.
Find oplid.zip (30.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/util.
Opus
Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet, but is also intended for storage and streaming applications. It is standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as RFC 6716 which incorporated technology from Skype's SILK codec and Xiph.Org's CELT codec. Opus can be adjusted seamlessly between high and low bitrates, and internally, it transitions between a linear prediction codec at lower bitrates and a transform codec at higher bitrates (as well as a hybrid for a short overlap).
Opus has a very low algorithmic delay (22.5 ms by default), which is a necessity for use as part of a low audio latency communication link, which can permit natural conversation, networked music performances, or lip sync at live events. Packages include Library for developers an tools for decoding/encoding audio files.
Authors: Xiph.org Foundation et al. (2001-2019); OS/2 ports by Gianfilippo Cimmino, Italy (2013); Takashi Ebisawa, Japan (2012); Dave Yeo (2016).
2016-01-13: libopus v1.1.2 - Last version for OS/2. Free under 'Modified' BSD License.
Go to the Opus website for downloads for other OSes, source code, docs and more.
Play & Record — Records WAV file directly to HD.
"Play.exe & record.exe are apps I used to test the recording capabilities of GUS drivers as well as Alaw, Ulaw & ADPCM support. Since the standard OS/2 digital audio app is quite limited I thought you might like these little apps to test the limits of your GUS Max, PnP or Interwave card.
Both are very basic. Record saves the recording settings right in the beginning of the data file and saves every buffer it gets from DART to this file. Play reads the recording settings and plays the following audio data."
Package contains C source code.
Author: Sander van Leeuwen, Netherlands (1998).
1998-07-09: Unnumbered release.
Find wavhdrec.zip (97K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/editors.
PMMixer
Author: Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, Netherlands (1994).
1994-01-30: v2.0.
Find pmmixer.zip (35.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util/mixers.
PMPiano
"Piano is a Presentation Manager application (for OS/2 2.x) that turns your computer into a MIDI controller. In other words, it allows you to play notes on external MIDI sound modules from your computer via a MIDI interface. If you have a sound card with a built-in sound module that is triggered via MIDI notes (such as a Turtle Beech MultiSound or a Roland RAP-10, SCC-1, or other such cards, with appropriate OS/2 driver), then you can play those as well. Piano also allows you to generate many other types of MIDI data such as Volume, Pan, Reverb Level, Chorus Level, Pitch Wheel, Moderation Wheel, AfterTouch (Key Pressure) and Channel Pressure so that if your MIDI sound module supports these codes, you can control the module appropriately."
Author: Jeff Glatt (1994).
1994-01-02: Unnumbered release.
Find pmpiano.zip (31.9K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/music/midi/keyboard.
PM Radio
Package contains C source code.
Author: Stephen Loomis (1996).
1996-10-28: v1.1. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Find pmradio.zip (192.1K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/misc.
PM Radio — Application for PC Radio Cards.
"This program is designed for use with the Reveal RA300 FM Radio Card and also both the old and the new versions of the RadioTrack card manufactured by AIMS Labs."
Package contains English, Italian (complete), German & Spanish (incomplete) versions.
Author: Paul Ratcliffe, UK (1999).
1999-11-03: v1.4.
Go to the author's website to download this utility. The Hobbes archive has the same download.
PMUniMix
Author: David W. Parsons, Germany (2015-2017).
2017-06-13: v0.82.
Find PMUniMix-bin-0_82.zip (209.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util/mixers.
QScaleGen — Application to generate scales for guitar players.
"QScaleGen is a small application for generating scales for guitar players. The design is very simple but effective."
Author: OS/2 port by Salvador Parra Camacho, Spain (2011).
2010-12-09: v0.3.
Find qscalegen03-os2.zip (56.9K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mirror/www.
rxRTCtrl
"rxRTCtrl is a REXX-callable DLL providing access to the AIMS RadioTrack FM radio card for OS/2 Warp 3 and later REXX programs."
Package contains sample REXX command files.
Authors: Armin Schwarz and Nicky Morrow (1998).
1998-12-21: v2.0.
Find rxrtctrl.zip (69.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/misc.
RxShout
RxShout is a source client for a streaming server, clone of original shout utility (with some additional features). The purpose of this client is to provide an mp3-stream to a Icecast server.
Author: Andrey Vasilkin, Russia (2007).
2007-08-06: Unnumbered release.
Find rxshout.zip (25.1K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound.
RxWav — REXX library for wave file editing.
"RxWav library is a set of functions that allow to manipulate RIFF wave audio files, i.e. changing volume level, applying filters, merging different files, etc."
Authors: Giorgio Vicario, Italy (1999-2000).
2003-01-22: v0.11β. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Downloads available in the Hobbes archive in dev/rexx
- Library - rxwav.zip (73.1K)
- Source code - rxwavsrc.zip (40.3K)
SBPMIX
Package contains C source code & docs in Dutch.
Author: Gerard Gerritsen, Netherlands (1997).
1997-01-18: v0.99β.
Find sbpm2099.zip (18K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util/mixers.
SetRegPM — User interface for SETREG.EXE.
"SETREGPM is a simple frontend utility that operates the SETREG.EXE program provided by Vit Timchishin. If this doesn't tell you anything, then SETREGPM is possibly not of any use for you."
Author: Carsten Arnold, Germany (2002).
2002-12-09: v0.90.
Find setregpm090.zip (83.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util.
SGPMix — A mixer for Sound Galaxy Pro16 Extra sound card.
Package contains DrDialog and Pascal source code.
Author: "Doodle", Hungary (2002).
2002-01-19: Unnumbered release.
Find sgpmix.zip (30.5K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util/mixers.
Shark MP4 Converter — Simple video converter for mobile phones.
Package contains source code.
Authors: Dávid Horváth / Dacr Hungary Kft., Hungary; OS/2 port by Gianfilippo Cimmino, Italy (2011).
2010-09-14: v1.1. Free under GPL 3.0 license.
Find sharkmp4_1_2.zip (76.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/video/convert.
Sound Scheme Editor
Author: Travis Watford (1996).
1997-02-08: v1.6.
Find sound16.zip (64K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/scheme.
SoX (Sound eXchange)
"SoX is the Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utilities. It can convert audio files to other popular audio file types and also apply sound effects and filters during the conversion."
Authors: Lance Norskog et al. (1991-2015); OS/2 ports by Chris Bagwell (1998-2004), Stefan A. Deutscher (2006), Mentore Siesto, Italy (2011), Michel Such, France (2000).
2008-11-09: v14.2.0 - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 2.0 and LGPL 2.1 licenses.
Go to the SoX website for features, docs, mailing list and more.
Subtitler
"This is an application that shows subtitles for AVI files (usually SUB files) while they are being played with WarpMedia or WarpVision CLI/GUI. It knows three kind of subtitle files currently, if you are lucky, yours is also supported."
Package contains Pascal source code.
Author: "Doodle", Hungary (2002).
2002-06-04: v1.2.
Find subtitler12.zip (73.7K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util.
TagTool — Edit ID3 v1 tags in mp3 files.
Author: Richard Röjfors, Sweden (1998).
1998-09-20: v1.0.
Find tagtoolv1.zip (10.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/util.
The Warped Wave Editor
"This is an audio file editor for OS/2. It should be able to read and write the formats supported by OS/2 natively, and you should be able to make simple editing on those files."
Author: "Doodle", Hungary (2004-2006).
2006-03-15: v0.78.
Find wawe_078.zip (1.3MB) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia.
TiMidity++
"TiMidity++ is a software synthesizer. It can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data; give it a MIDI data along with digital instrument data files, then it synthesizes them in real-time, and plays. It can not only play sounds, but also can save the generated waveforms into hard disks as various audio file formats."
Package contains docs in English & Japanese.
Authors: originally by Tuukka Toivonen, Finland (1995); maintained by Masanao Izumo, Japan et al. (1997-2007); OS/2 port by Darwin O'Connor, Canada (2002).
2004-04-26: v2.13.0. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Go to the TiMidity++ website for downloads for other OSes, screenshots and more.
VIA AC'97 codec sound problem solver pack
"Not long ago I've decided to upgrade my PC. The motherboard I've selected contained VIA 686B with integrated AC'97 audio. I even heard that there are drivers for this audio card. But after I came home and tried to use the sound I've faced some problems... Now I can listen any WAV/MP3 file I wish (now I have CD player playing using digital transfer). Some time later I've realized that I am not alone and so this package was created to help many others that faced same problems."
Author: Vitalij Timchishin, Ukraine (2001).
2001-12-10: v0.9c.
Find viasp09c.zip (108.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/util.
VoiX — Voice suppressor.
VoiX is an open-source vocal elimination program written in ANSI C. It can reduce the vocal track from a stereo song. This program is based on the dsp_centercut plugin.
Authors: Zhichao Zhang, China (2006-2008); OS/2 port by Mentore Siesto, Italy (2011).
2008-09-19: v1.0.0β5.
Go to the VoiX website for a screenshot taken from the Chinese (Simplified) version of Windows XP and sample music.
Vorbis
"Vorbis is a general purpose audio and music encoding format contemporary to MPEG-4's AAC and TwinVQ, the next generation beyond MPEG audio layer 3. Unlike the MPEG sponsored formats (and other proprietary formats such as RealAudio G2 and Windows' flavor of the month), the Vorbis CODEC specification belongs to the public domain. All the technical details are published and documented, and any software entity may make full use of the format without license fee, royalty or patent concerns."
Authors: Xiph.org Foundation (1994-2018); OS/2 ports by Brian Havard, Australia (2012), Myung-Hun Ko, South Korea (2008-2017), Dave Yeo (2016).
2018-03-16: libvorbis 1.3.6. Free under 'Modified' BSD License.
Go to the Xiph.org website for downloads, bug tracker, docs, mailing lists and more.
WarpAMP Playlist Editor
"This program was written to facilitate the editing and creation of playlist files for the WarpAMP MPEG audio player program, which only uses the standard file dialog for adding files. It's not particularly fancy, but it should be easier to use than what WarpAMP itself provides."
Package contains DrDialog source code.
Author: Mike Ruskai (1998).
1998-09-28: v0.99β.
Find wpl0996b.zip (358.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/util.
WarpRadio — Control RadioActive FM Radio card.
Author: Armin Schwarz / Lone Peak Automation, LLC (1997).
1997-08-08: v1.0.
Find wrpradio.zip (158.5K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/misc.
wav2cdr — convert wav files to CD-ROM format and/or do some editing.
wav2cdr converts sound data into a format which can be recorded on a CD (compact disc). The wav and a few raw formats can be handled (both read and write). Input can be chopped into pieces, which can then be recorded as separate tracks on CD. Some other transformations are also offered, e.g. volume change.
Author: Volker Kuhlmann, Germany (1997-2000); OS/2 port by Franz Bakan, Germany (2006).
2000-10-27: v2.2.3. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Find wav2cdr-2_2_3.zip (45.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/convert.
WAVECHK — Checks files for AIFF or WAVE information.
"WAVECHK is an OS/2 command line utility that checks if a file is an AIFF (Mac digital audio) or WAVE (clone digital audio) file, and if so, prints out audio-related information about the file."
Author: Jeff Glatt (1995).
1995-08-06: v1.1.
Find wavchk.zip (9.1K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/util.
wavmix — Simple command line 44.1khz stereo wav file mixer.
"WavMix is a small utility that I wrote to "mix" large 44.1khz stereo .wav files."
Package contains source code.
Author: Terry Fry (1999).
1999-01-03: v1.1.
Find wavmix11.zip (35.1K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/util.
Audio MPEG (MP3) Players
AudioCenter — Music player front-end.
"AudioCenter is an OS/2 audio program Front-End that can control many audio players. Its main purpose is to integrated all music file formats into a common user interface. This method allows the user to combine many music file formats into a single queue. AudioCenter takes care of all the players for you so that you don't have to think about what play can play what files. Since all the audio file types will be associated with AudioCenter, there is no need for you to worry about closing one player before starting another. Let AudioCenter take care of all of this for you. What could be easier!"
Author: Kevin Langman, Canada (1998-2001).
2001-08-14: v1.00.
Find audc100.zip (116.7K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/media/jukebox.
LB Real Audio Player
Author: OS/2 port by Lesha Bogdanow, Russia (1999).
1999-04-23: v0.02.
Find lbraplay002a.zip (118.5K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/players.
MooSick
Free mplayer-based Music Player with a built-in Song Database, Websearch, Streaming and Download Tools and several Audio Effects including Speed Control, Pitch Change, Dynamics Processing, "Live"-, Headphone- and Karaoke Filters and Distortion ...
Authors: Philipp Ruppel, Germany (2010-2011); OS/2 port by Salvador Parra Camacho, Spain (2011).
2011-02-08: v0.1.0. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Go to the Project Page at SourceForge for reviews and more.
MPG123 — Fast console MPEG Audio Player and decoder library.
MPG123 is a console based decoder/player for mono/stereo mpeg audio files. It is focused on speed, highly optimized and very stable: its code has years of development and it is considered one of the fastest and best mp3 players!
Authors: Michael Hipp, Thomas Orgis et al. (1997-2021); OS/2 ports by Andrew Alexeyenko, Russia (1999), Samuel Audet, Japan (1998), Gianfilippo Cimmino, Italy (2015-2016), Niclas Lindström, Sweden (1997), Craig Pommer (1997).
2016-01-31: v1.23.0 - Last version for OS/2. Free under LGPL 2.1 license.
Go to the mpg123 website for downloads for recent releases, version changes and more. The .de variant is also accessible.
MPlayer — Audio and video player.
"MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.
Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.
MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well."
Authors: Árpád Gereöffy, Hungary et al. (2000-2019); OS/2 ports by Myung-Hun Ko, South Korea (2008-2016); Paul Smedley, Australia (2007).
2019-04-18: v1.4 SubCounter. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Go to the MPlayer website for compilations for other OSes, screenshots, documentation and more.
Playlist — Drag-and-drop WAV file jukebox.
Author: Randall W. Jenkins (1996).
1996-07-03: v1.00. Cardware.
Find playlist.zip (408.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/jukebox.
PM123 — Audio player.
Authors: Dmitry A. Steklenev, Russia (2004-2019); Marcel Müller, Germany (2005-2019); originally by Samuel Audet, Japan; Taneli Leppä, Finland (1997-2003).
2017-10-11: v1.41. Free under 'Modified' BSD License.
See here or here for download links.
PMaud
"This is PMaud. It's the world's simplest Presentation Manager program. It simply takes a command line of a file (or several files), and plays them all. No windows. No buttons. No overhead or extra mouse clicks."
Package contains C source code.
Author: Ryan C. Gordon (1996).
1996-04-24: v1.1.
Find pmaud11.zip (11.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/jukebox.
SMPlayer — Audio and video player.
"SMPlayer is a free media player with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.
One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will be resumed at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...
SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles."
Notes
- The default browser is opened with the post-install page which redirects to the first steps page after installing the Windows version.
- The default YouTube user agent is same as Firefox 5.0.1.
- Since the beginning of September 2013, SMPlayer harasses users into donating or sharing via Facebook or Twitter (see also Help: Donate in the menu or topics in the forum). The popup appears once after opening the program 25 or 45 times based on the configuration file's
remindervalue if the action is removed. Pressing Donate will open up a page in the PayPal website, whereas No closes the dialog. - If the right mouse button is set to open the context menu, the context menu is opened at the top left.
watch?vmust be lowercase for YouTube links to be parsed.
Authors: Ricardo Villalba, Spain et al. (2006-2020); OS/2 port by Silvan Scherrer / bitwise works GmbH, Austria (2014-2017).
2017-01-20: v17.1.0GA - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 2.0 license. OS/2 port contains docs in English, French & German.
Go to the SMPlayer website for downloads for other OSes, screenshots, version history, forum and more.
SMTube — YouTube browser for SMPlayer.
"SMTube is an application that allows to browse, search and play YouTube videos. Videos are played back with a media player (by default SMPlayer) instead of a flash player, this allows better performance, particularly with HD content."
Note: It is distributed as a plugin for SMPlayer, so you must have SMPlayer installed. The default user agent is same as Safari.
Authors: Ricardo Villalba, Spain et al. (2013-2020); OS/2 port by Silvan Scherrer / bitwise works GmbH, Austria (2014-2016).
2016-07-03: v16.7.2 - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Go to the SMTube website for Windows and Linux binaries, screenshot under Ubuntu, source code and more.
VLC media player — Audio and video player.
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Authors: Original code by Régis Duchesne and Olivier Pomel, developed by VideoLAN et al. (1996-2022); OS/2 port by Myung-Hun Ko, South Korea (2010-2019).
2019-08-19: v3.0.8. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Go to the VLC website for downloads for other OSes, screenshots, source code, wiki and more.
WarpAMP
Author: SDG (1998).
1998-03-27: v4.0β.
Find wamp_b4.zip (292.7K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/players.
z!
Author: Thomas Fotherby (2000-2002).
2002-09-26: v2.0β.
Find z-ogg-b2.zip (196.7K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/sound/players.
MIDI Players
Calliope — AVI, WAV and MIDI player.
"Calliope is a 32-bit executable PM program which plays WAV, AVI and MIDI files. It also facilitates the creation of Play Lists which permit the mixing of AVI, WAV and MIDI files on different drives and in different directories."
Author: Len Dorfman / MultiGrain Software et al. (1995).
1995-02-14: v0.4.
Find calliope.zip (77.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/video/players.
MOD Players
Dual Module Player — Simple, fast module player.
"Dual Module Player is a program for playing music modules on different sound systems on IBM PC compatible machines. It uses DSMI sound programming interface (Digital Sound & Music Interface) to achieve high quality sound and wide sound card support."
Package contains source code.
Author: Julien Pierre, France (1995-1996).
1996-07-11: v1.09.
Find dmp109.zip (242.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/music/mod/players.
PowerMOD — Small MOD music player.
PowerMOD is a small MOD music player with real time adjustable controls. It does not use any form of fixed point or floating point mathematics to achieve the resampling but uses a form of the Bresnham algorithm to eliminate rounding errors that may occur using the former techniques."
Author: Antony T Curtis, UK (1996-1998).
1998-08-28: v0.39.
Find pmod039.zip (73K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/music/mod/players.
UltiMOD — MOD player.
Author: Sander van Leeuwen, Netherlands (1995-1996).
1996-10-01: v1.5.
Find ultra120.zip (337.5K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/music/mod/players.
Speech
BackTalk
Package includes REXX programs to read EMail messages, IRC, date/time and timer.
Authors: Samuel Audet, Japan (1996-1997); originally by Jim Little (1996).
1997-12-22: v2.01.
Find btalk201.zip (238.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/speech or download it from the author's site.
Festival
"Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, and an Emacs interface."
Authors: University of Edinburgh et al. (1997-2017); OS/2 port by Samuel Audet, Japan (2000).
1999-11-21: v1.4.1 - Last version for OS/2.
Go to the British or American sites for downloads for other OSes, mailing lists, manual and more.
Workplace Shell Audio CD Players
CD in a Box
"This is a program to play audio CDs using MMPM/2."
Author: Lyndsay A Roger, New Zealand (1994-1996).
1996-04-10: v1.66.
Find cdbox166.zip (106.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/cd/player.
DB CD Player — Audio CD player with CD info database.
Author: Frank Carlsson, Sweden (1996).
1996-04-13: v0.21.
Find dbcdp021.zip (582K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/cd/player.
WarpCD — CD player with WinAmp skin support.
"WarpCD is a CD player with WinAmp skin support. Three skins are included. This player uses the IOCtrl interface and therefore doesn't need MMOS2. Full source is included."
Author: Chris Wohlgemuth, Germany (2000).
2000-10-27: v0.2.0. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Find warpcd-v0_2_0.zip (141.5K) as a WarpIN installer in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia/misc.