{"id":482,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=482"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"tv-smooth-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"TV:  Smooth viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a standard Bt848 TV card on my BeOS system. I was frustrated as a new user because I couldn&#8217;t get the TV app to display full-screen without it being really jerky and fragmented. I ran my desktop at 1280&#215;1024. So I would watch TV in 640&#215;480 window on the regular desktop. Of course, that&#8217;s not good enough.<br \/>\nThe solution to this problem is to create a Workspace at 640&#215;480, and drag the TV window into it when you start it up. Bang, full-screen TV on your BeOS machine! No shakes, jitters, or dropped frames.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Tyler Riti (fizzyboy@mail.utexas.edu) offers this cool script to automate the process. It requires that <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.datanet.hu\/~mezeia\/\">hey<\/a> be installed in your path.<br \/>\nOn my system, I have Workspace 12 set to 640&#215;480 so you may want to edit that line for your system or just comment it out. Save this into a text file, chmod it to be executable (or use SetPerms), and place it on your Desktop so you can double-click it any time you want.<\/p>\n<pre>\nTV &amp; sleep 1\nhey TV set Workspaces of Window \"Bt848 Input 1\" to 2048\nhey TV set Frame of Window \"Bt848 Input 1\" to 'BRect(0,0,639,479)'\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a standard Bt848 TV card on my BeOS system. I was frustrated as a new user because I couldn&#8217;t get the TV app to display full-screen without it being really jerky and fragmented. I ran my desktop at 1280&#215;1024. So I would watch TV in 640&#215;480 window on the regular desktop. Of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}