16 November 2001
From The Editor
WarpMedia Technology Preview 1x08
WarpMedia (ftp://ftp.sdg.os2.nu/pub/warpmedia/testcase/wmed_tp1x08.zip) just keeps getting better and better. The developers took a bit of time off to work
on other projects, but they've come out with a new release that adds a number of very worthwhile
new features. The biggest addition has to be support for additional audio formats including MP3
and PCM, quite a few DivX's I have now play with audio. They've also done some work on the
synchronization code. In older
versions if WarpMedia got out of synch, it would tend to stay out of synch, however with this version
if you have a fast system, it will adjust the video framerate and recover from nearly any problem.
I still have a few sychronization problems on my slower system (dual Celeron 433).
Another welcome addition is a lot of additional information about your videos and MP3's in the
playlist, it now lists the time, audio stream format, bitrate, frequency, resolution and much more
which really helps when you're trying to figure out why the DivX you just downloaded doesn't
play quite as you expect. Also good is the addition of a working fast-forward and rewind controls.
Important News from Warpstock
The OS/2 Voice newsletter has some
important information from Oliver Mark from IBM. (http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL1101H/vnewsf1.htm)
He laid out IBM's current OS/2 plans at Warpstock. It isn't happy reading, but if you haven't already
read it, you probably will find it interesting.
Slashdot
It was nice to see so many OS/2 users on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/01/1927232&mode=thread) this month
in the article Where Have the OS/2 Junkies Gone.
Interesting Website of the Month
Russ Harvey's OS/2 Site (http://www.russharvey.bc.ca/rhc/os2/index.html) has a lot of interesting
OS/2 and eComStation info and is rather nicely organized. This is a good place for OS/2 beginners to go to find
information on getting started, and contains quite a bit of information on OS/2 add-ons I didn't know existed.
It is worth a look.
This Issue
This issue
Robert Basler looks at eComStation 1.0 and a slick optical Logitech mouse,
Pete Grubbs talks to Achim Hasenmeuller who is behind the upcoming Virtual PC for OS/2,
Dan Eicher talks to Doug Hendrix, the maker of Stellar Frontier,
Mike Engle looks at using Freelance Graphics for your presentation needs,
Doug Clark looks at Visualizer Query and is back with another installment of his series on ODBC and
Simon Gronlund anchors the issue with his Into Java column.
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