{"id":565,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=565"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"try-a-smoother-media-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Try\n a smoother media player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a variety of reasons, R5&#8217;s MediaPlayer plays some videos haltingly. There is however, a workaround. First, make sure you have the <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.be.com\/pub\/beos\/\">development tools<\/a> installed. If you have BeOS Pro edition, launch a Terminal and type:<\/p>\n<pre>\ncd \/boot\/optional\/sample-code\/media_kit\/MediaFile\/mplay\/\nmake\n<\/pre>\n<p>If you use Personal Edition, grab mplay from <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.be.com\/pub\/samples\/media_kit\/MediaFile.zip\">ftp:\/\/ftp.be.com\/pu b\/samples\/media_kit\/MediaFile.zip<\/a>, unpack, and run make.<br \/>\nThis will make a much more simple media player called &#8222;mplay&#8220;. Although it is not nearly as full featured as the full MediaPlayer, it does not skip video at all. To open videos, simply right click them, scroll to &#8222;Open With&#8230;&#8220; then select mplay.<br \/>\nWhat would be really nice would be if some nice developer would hack mplay a bit and add some more features, and bring it up to speed with the full MediaPlayer&#8230;.<br \/>\n[Editor&#8217;s note: mplay does not appear to work with DV footage captured from video cameras.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a variety of reasons, R5&#8217;s MediaPlayer plays some videos haltingly. There is however, a workaround. First, make sure you have the development tools installed. If you have BeOS Pro edition, launch a Terminal and type: cd \/boot\/optional\/sample-code\/media_kit\/MediaFile\/mplay\/ make If you use Personal Edition, grab mplay from ftp:\/\/ftp.be.com\/pu b\/samples\/media_kit\/MediaFile.zip, unpack, and run make. This will [&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":[3],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-audio-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}