A copy of eComStation 1.1 RC1 arrived today. I haven't had a chance to take more than a cursory look at it yet,
but we'll have some more info for you next issue.
WarpVision GUI
Having heard some more good things online, I thought it was time to give WarpVision (http://os2.kiev.ua/en/wv.php) GUI a try
again. (http://www.os2ezine.com/20020816/page_4.html) I downloaded
the 2003/01/13 version and to my surprise, it now seems to play DVD's very well. It took some fiddling to get it
to work at first, I had to put UDF.SYS before CDFS.SYS in config.sys (thanks to the included FAQ,) but once
I had done that, it started to play, and it hasn't stopped since. The mysterious crashes I experienced with
the command line version seem to be gone.
Audio/video syncronization is now very solid. As I mentioned previously, WarpVision still suffers a bit with
scaling images, they're using scanline duplication/elimination for their stretching which makes
things look a little funny on diagonals, but if you use the handy 1:1 option on the video window menu, you get crystal-clear
DVD video. I might be spoiled however, I'm used to a hardware MPEG-2 decoder card that does wonderfully clean scaling.
WarpVision is donation-ware, so why not give it a go!
Cool Website of the Month
Looking for tried and tested Java apps for OS/2? Look no further than the OS/2 Java Corner (http://home.hccnet.nl/rjj.troost/japp4os2.htm)
which features Java applications organized by categories such as: games, graphic and image, scientific, multimedia
and more.
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Robert Basler is the president of
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and has been a dedicated OS/2 user since he tired of rebooting Windows 3.1 twenty times a day.
He spends what free time he can manage travelling the world. Photo was taken at Franz Josef
glacier, New Zealand.
Robert Basler is the president of
Aurora Systems, Inc. (http://www.aurora-systems.com)
and has been a dedicated OS/2 user since he tired of rebooting Windows 3.1 twenty times a day.
He spends what free time he can manage travelling the world. Photo was taken at Franz Josef
glacier, New Zealand.