bonk-xmms - a XMMS player for the BONK audio format

(c) 2002 - Fabrice Haberer-Proust <info@proustmedia.de>


bonk-xmms is a plugin for the multimedia player XMMS that plays audio files in
the bonk format, a highly compressed audio format by Paul Harrison.

bonk-xmms is released under the terms of the version 2 of the GNU General Public
Licence.

The latest version of this software may be found at:

http://www.proustmedia.de/bonk-xmms/

The original bonk format encoder may be found at:

http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~pfh/


AUTHORS

The bonk format was designed by

Paul Harrison <pfh@csse.monash.edu.au>

The interface for XMMS was programmed by

Fabrice Haberer-Proust <info@proustmedia.de>


REQUIREMENT

bonk-xmms is known to work on GNU/Linux (i386, ppc) and OpenBSD (i386, alpha)
and may also work on other Unices running XMMS and on other architectures.

These software packages are needed to install bonk-xmms:

- XMMS including header files. Currently tested on XMMS 1.2.4 and 1.2.6
- GTK library including header files
- GLIB library including header files

On Debian GNU/Linux, it should be enough to have the package xmms-dev installed.


INSTALL

make

and then (as root)

make install

(do not forget to quit XMMS before installing the new plugin to avoid it to
crash)


BUGS

None I am aware of, but probably a lot. See FEEDBACK


LIMITATIONS

Due to a limitation in the current version of the bonk format, it is not
possible to go forward to a position that was not already read.


FEEDBACK

Your feedback, including bug reports, is very welcome. Please send it to:

Fabrice Haberer-Proust <info@proustmedia.de>

(If possible, please write in french or in german)
