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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Dark Basic Pro and Mod - Xm Files ?

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Unkof
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Posted: 15th Sep 2002 17:08
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We can't used Mod and Xm Files in DB Pro ?...what a pity... mods files are great, and don't used a lot of cycle processing... in a next update, do you addition it ??.. the DB standard use a lot of zik format...
Specs: P4 1800 Mhz, 512 Mb, Gforce 4 - 64 Mb Ddr, W98
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xtom
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Posted: 15th Sep 2002 20:19
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Strange that they're not supprted as standard any more. I think you can play them through dlls but that's not exactly an easy approach.
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rapscaLLion
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Posted: 15th Sep 2002 21:04
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No more mod files???
I sure hope DBS changes their minds on that one!

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MushroomHead
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Posted: 15th Sep 2002 21:15
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Try MikMod ... it's available from :-

http://www.bitplanet.de/mikwin/

- Rav.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 04:21
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It's because DBV1 had fmod in it. DBPro uses DirectMusic. I have written a function library for bassmod.dll so you can play mod's, xm's, etc in your programs easily and will release this shortly. If you look carefully at the screen shots of the IDE in the gallery on this site you'll see some of my code for it

Cheers,

Rich

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Unkof
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 12:09
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Thanks .... i will find and try it !..

Specs: P4 1800 Mhz, 512 Mb, Gforce 4 - 64 Mb Ddr, W98
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MushroomHead
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 12:28
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Remember bassmod.dll is free for non-commercial use, shareware is $100 and commercial $2750. Mikmod is 100% free.

- Rav.

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Unkof
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 13:23
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it's for non-commercial use.... thanks MushroomHead

Specs: P4 1800 Mhz, 512 Mb, Gforce 4 - 64 Mb Ddr, W98
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Lampton Worm
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 14:59
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Mikmod sounds cool.. so you can just call the .dll and provide the .xm as a parameter ? What else can you control..? Start/Stop/Volume etc. ? I could examine the source I guess but my .c ain't so good !

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MushroomHead
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 16:36
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There's a DLL provided with the SDK so you can call the DLL directly, though DrakeX says there's a restriction placed by the number of arguments you can pass to a DLL, I think he couldn't get past the initialise stage of the DLL or something. If I get the chance, I can work on an easy wrapper for it ... I have already done a modplug one and you can grab it from :-

http://www.realgametools.com/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=6416

Npmod32.dll is a little restricted with what it can do (that's how Oliver's designed it) but it does allow you to play XM, IT, MODS etc. The wrapper wouldn't work with DB for some reason but works fine with DBP.

- Rav.

N.B: Npmod32.dll cannot be used for commercial purposes though.

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The Wendigo
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There is a way around! If you have Modplug you can export to .WAV, then you can use an MP3 converter to make it an MP3. If anyone wants an MP3 converter for free, I made one in VB. I just gotta find it .

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MushroomHead
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Aha, but MP3's cannot be used in a commercial venture unless you're willing to pay $5000 upwards for a licence! Better option would be to use Ogg Vorbis codec which is 100% freeware under GNU opensource licence ...

- Rav.

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Unkof
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Posted: 17th Sep 2002 20:03
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Is someone who's making with an external dll a great equilizer like mediaplayr 7 in Db Pro or Db ???... i have not found a command for that .. someone have a dll for that ?

Specs: P4 1800 Mhz, 512 Mb, Gforce 4 - 64 Mb Ddr, W98
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Pickles
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Posted: 18th Sep 2002 20:23
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You do not have to pay $5000 dollars to use an MP3 file in your game. Not You anyways! To find out if you must pay to use an MP3 file in your software check out this site:

http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/developer.html

Here is a quote from that page describing who is excluded from having to pay license fees for playing back an MP3:

"Q - Do I need a license to distribute mp3/mp3PRO encoded content?"

The anser is yes, but read this.

"However, no license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with an annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00"

Annual gross revenue of $100 000.00 - Your product will have to produce at least this amount of money per year befor you have to pay.

The developers of DBPro however have to pay on a revenue generated basis, because they use an MP3 player in DB.

They have payed that for you. And that is one of the real reasons people should be using DB. If you had to code you own MP3 player, you would be paying that license fee.

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Pickles
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If you're really hitched, just use the AU format. Although the quality of the sound is not the best, you would be surprised as to how clear it can sound, and the compression is great. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the AU format is license free.

PS - Has anyone distributed over 5000 copies of their game?

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