Documentation of Aniplayer

4.3 OLGA installation

If you want use Aniplayer as a plug-in for CAB (for example) you must install OLGA. Note that in order to use the OLGA protocol, you must run a multitasking operating system such as MultiTOS or MagiC.

You must choose whether to make the OLGA manager resident in memory or to load it when required. The first case is the simplest: just rename OLGA.APP to OLGA.ACC and place it in the root directory of your boot partition.

The second case is a little more complicated but offers the advantage that the OLGA manager only takes up memory when an OLGA-aware application is loaded. Copy OLGA.APP to any convenient directory (for example C:\GEMSYS\OLGA\OLGA.APP), then set an environmental variable called OLGAMANAGER which contains the path to OLGA.APP. For MultiTOS, add the following line to GEM.CNF:

setenv OLGAMANAGER=C:\GEMSYS\OLGA\OLGA.APP

MagiC expects environmental variables to be in MAGX.INF as follows:

#_ENV OLGAMANAGER=C:\GEMSYS\OLGA\OLGA.APP

Now, when an OLGA-aware application is launched, the OLGA manager will also be automatically started in parallel. Similarly, after the last OLGA-aware application is closed, the OLGA manager will remove itself from the system.

How individual applications affect other OLGA-aware applications is up to them. For example in CAB you can display movies with Aniplayer in an HTML page (tag EMBED). Using the OLGA.INF file it's possible to specify a particular application to call, or alternatively to allow the OLGA manager to search for a player. The INF file can be edited using any ASCII text editor. To install Aniplayer as a server, you must enter these lines in the following order:

[Extensions]
.AVI=$ANIPLAY
.MOV=$ANIPLAY
.QT=$ANIPLAY
.FLI=$ANIPLAY
.RM=$ANIPLAY
.MPG=$ANIPLAY
.AVR=$ANIPLAY
.WAV=$ANIPLAY
.AIF=$ANIPLAY
.RA=$ANIPLAY
.MP1=$ANIPLAY
.MP2=$ANIPLAY
.AC3=$ANIPLAY
.OGG=$ANIPLAY
.JPG=$ANIPLAY
   ...

[Objects]
.AVI=Video For Windows
.MOV=QuickTime Movie MOV
.QT=QuickTime Movie QT
.FLI=Autodesk Animator Movie
.RM=Real Media
.MPG=MPEG
.AVR=Audio Visual Research
.WAV=Microsoft RIFF-WAVE
.AIF=Apple Interchange File Format
.RA=Real Audio
.MP1=MPEG Audio Layer 1
.MP2=MPEG Audio Layer 2
.AC3=AC3 Dolby Digital
.OGG=Ogg Vorbis
.JPG=JPEG
   ...

[Types]
MV=$ANIPLAY
 ...

[Applications]
ANIPLAY=E:\MULMEDIA\ANIPLAY\ANIPLAY.PRG
;for example
    ...

The author of OLGA is Thomas Much; his email address is:

Thomas.Much@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de