I made installers for most major platforms for the Java Empeg implementation. I'd love to hear some feedback specifically from non-Windows users on how the installer works, and other issues you run into.

Enjoy!

http://jempeg.sourceforge.net/

Nice!

Worked great for me on my RH7 box. No problems what-so-ever.

Good job!



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Donato
MkII/Blue/40GB/080000565

RedHat 6.2 x86 worked just fine.

Hmm, I think the generic Unix installer leaves a bit to be desired. It extracts the files into a JEmpeg directory, but does not set your classpath or provide any sort of script to start jempeg. Personally I think a gzip'd file that simply contained jempeg.jar and a shell script to set the classpath and start jempeg would be simpler for most users.

-Mike

I tried it under linux with my mk1 player - but JEmpeg cant find the player on ther serial port :-(

Appears to work well on Mac OS 9... As you'd expect, the interface is very generic, and took a little getting used to, but it is of a higher standard than many other Java app interfaces.

Downloads are very quick and all the essential features are there. Drag and drop doesn't appear to work, but I'm not aware of how easy or difficult that is to implement. Being able to make multiple selections in the file dialog make up for it though.

Excellent job!

--
David
// I'm probably not speaking on behalf of empeg here...

Yeah -- unfortunately, while cross-platform is handy for me, it's not so handy for people used to their native interfaces.

Drag-and-drop (native-to-java) can be done with JDK 1.2. But unfortunately, there is no 1.2 impl for Mac, so I intentionally avoided it. Kind of disappointing. There is some basic drag and drop support within the application itself (tree-to-tree and table-to-table).

I haven't tried an Mk1 -- Do you know if the protocol is the same? You need to make sure you get the linux implementation of javax.comm (the url is http://www.interstice.com/kevinh/linuxcomm.html). I bundled the javax.comm class library, but you need the native side of it for your platform.

Let me know how it goes...

Mike

Yeah -- I never actually tried the generic Unix one... I'm surprised they didn't at least make a shell script for it (those are all generated automatically by InstallAnywhere). Maybe I'll include a simple shell script for the generic Unix version in the next release. You can still just download the jar from sourceforge, too.

OK, my comments.

Finally got around to upgrading my empeg to 1.01 and planned to tinker with JEmpeg on my Mac (OS9, G4/450). Unfortunately, found that I can't, because the Empeg resides on a different physical network (e.g., it won't see a broadcast packet sent by the Mac). Even if I specify the IP address of the empeg-car unit, it still only seems to do the discovery via broadcast (so the question begs asking - why ask for the IP at all if you can only discover via broadcast).

D

I can change that pretty easily ... In fact, it used to not do that, but the code that got the name of the unit was done via a broadcast. I'll switch that back to the way it used to work and let you know.

if you have a java compiler and feel like getting your hands a little dirty, before I do a full release, in mschrag.empeg.protocol.NetworkEmpegDiscoverer you can change the discover(int) method to:

  public void discover(int _timeoutMillis) throws IOException {
    if (myInetAddress == null) {
      if (mySock == null) {
        mySock = new DatagramSocket(DISCOVERY_PORT);
        mySock.setSoTimeout(_timeoutMillis);
      }

      broadcastDiscoveryRequest();
      waitForDiscoveryRequest(_timeoutMillis);
    } else {
      discover("(unknown)", myInetAddress);
    }
  }

and I believe that will fix your problem

No compiler unfortunately.

Any chance of making a fixed version available soon?

Thanks,

D

This isn't an "official release" because I haven't tested it, but you can go get a fixed version from the old site. If it works for you, I'll get some other fixes in and do an official release.

ms

Is the old site "jempeg.sourceforge.net"? I go there, using the "start installer" button and it still (appears) to install the old version.

Or should I be doing something different since this isn't a full release?

D

In the previous post, "a fixed version" is a link to the file... it's http://www.experient.com/jemptool/jempeg-0.9.13a.jar

ms

Ah... stylesheet boned the link it looks like (couldn't see it)...

Appears to have fixed the problem. :) Muchas gracias.

D