PM123's Plug-ins
PM123 ships with a set of plug-ins for different purposes.
The plug-ins are configured in the configuration dialog.
Decoder plug-ins
MPG123 - Player for MPEG Audio encoded files
- Supports MPEG Audio 1.0, 2.0 and 2.5 Layer I, II, and III.
- MMX support.
- HTTP and FTP Streaming support including SHOUTcast and icecast.
- Also supports Title Streaming.
- ID3 Tag editor.
- Can save streaming data to hard disk.
- Read Ahead Stream Buffering.
- The usual Fast Forward, Rewind and Seek Slider.
OGGPLAY - Ogg-Vorbis audio decoder
- HTTP and FTP Streaming support including SHOUTcast and icecast.
- Also supports Title Streaming.
- The usual Fast Forward, Rewind and Seek Slider.
WAVPLAY - Decoder for lossless PCM files
- Decodes AIFF (Apple/SGI), AU (Sun/NeXT), CAF (Apple Core Audio File),
IFF (Amiga IFF/SVX8/SV16), MAT4 (GNU Octave 2.0 / Matlab 4.2),
MAT5 (GNU Octave 2.1 / Matlab 5.0), PAF (Ensoniq PARIS),
PVF (Portable Voice Format), SD2 (Sound Designer II),
SDS (Midi Sample Dump Standard), SF (Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL),
VOC (Creative Labs), W64 (SoundFoundry WAVE 64), XI (FastTracker 2).
- HTTP and FTP Streaming support.
- The usual Fast Forward, Rewind and Seek Slider.
CDDAPLAY - Play CD tracks through CDDA
- Playing through CDDA allows filtering of the music.
- FreeDB support.
- The usual Fast Forward, Rewind and Seek Slider.
OS2REC - A recording plug-in
- Stereo recordings with sampling rates up to 48kHz.
Well, strictly speaking this is no decoder.
And you may think it makes no sense at all to record with a player.
It makes sense! Together with the equalizer plug-in
you may use you PC with PM123 as en HiFi equalizer.
Visualization plug-ins
ANALYZER - Sound visualization in PM123's window
- Uses Fast DIVE API.
- Real-Time analysis and display of currently playing data.
- Visualization as oscilloscope, spectrum or spectroscope.
- Fallout Rate, Update Frequency and Percentage of viewed spectrum can be changed.
This is part of the skin and must be referenced from the
skin's configuration file to work.
Filter plug-ins
REALEQ - A professional graphical sound equalizer for music lovers
- High performance FFT convolution filter. Up to 16384 coefficients on a Celeron 500.
- 32 1/3 octave ISO R10 Standard Serie bands.
- Independent control of the Left and Right channel.
- Group delay equalization.
LOGVOLUM - Emulation for a logarithmic volume controller
- The linear behavior of the volume control of cheap sound devices are turned into
a more natural nearly logarithmic slope.
This plug-in is disabled by default.
Go to the properties dialog, page Filter Plug-ins to enable this plug-in.
Output plug-ins
OS2AUDIO - Outputs sound to your sound card
- Uses Fast DART API.
- Millisecond accurate fetching of data for Visual Plug-ins.
- Support for Shared and Multiple sound cards.
- User changeable amount of buffered decoded data for a more responsive system.
This is the default output.
WAVOUT - Outputs sound to your hard disk
- Outputs sound directly to your hard disk in WAV format.
- Operate faster than real time.
To activate wave output go to the properties dialog, page Output Plug-ins.