I want to input a streaming .asx file from any radio station. but how on BeOS? i have tried opening the file on vlc and soundplay, but it cannot play. how will i be able to input streaming radio? here is a site with the .asx www.chaincast.com/asx/rogers oh ya, and thanks for the guys who answered my last question 'startrek tng loop' Mr X

How about you ask that on Beshare. They might know how to get beos to resolve media files from xml links. All that windows stuff is rather windows only. They want to keep it that way too. I am not sure that the linux geeks even got it working. If so then you might look at a simple port.

Did you get that TNG loop working OK? Hope so.. Re: asx...i'm not sure there was ever the option to run windows media files in BeOS, but even if there were, BeOS is four years old now,(not counting zeta, etc. ) and unless some third party drivers were written to decode then, they couldn't work anyways, as MS has completely changed the format of their streanming media over the last few years. In fact, the only non-windows OS that can run windows streaming media, as far as i'm aware, is MacOS....and then only with the newest Windows Media Player....

actually, that question was more of a 'is this possible?' one. so no, i havent done it yet, but i will someday. i get this error called 'triplicate post' so here is my other question Hey guys, now that i put in some more ram,(256MB now) i want to have virtual memory turned off. the os reccomends 386 but i dont know how to turn it off or disable it. the slider wont go down any further (using 'VirtualMemory' in preferences) i remember when i had win98, i could disable it and it went alot faster. can you provide any insight? yeah, on another note, i want to defragmatize beos. but i cant find the defragmenter? how come?

I think that there is a tip at betips dot net about VM. Beos uses a pretty advanced file system. You shouldn't need to defrag it. There is one tool that should be included is CheckBFS. Do a find for bfs and run it.

Actually, i think Scott Hacker had an answer to that one on betips- look for tips under his name...i think you'd have to edit some config file, or maybe change attributes, i'm not sure..thing is, though, BeOS's swapfile doesn't slow it down much..it's not at all like windows..The way BeOS reads filesystems ,it's so fast anyways, and also unlike windows, which uses the swapfile even when it doesn't need to, it won't defer to using a swapfile unless the ram is already getting full. Unless you've got an immensely tiny harddrive, you shouldn't need to ever defrag as BeOS writes to the free space that's not fragmented, and as jefro said, it's a much more advanced filesystem (it has similarities to the mac's one, actually). If things seem slow, especially in the tracker, try removing some unnecessary user addon's (provided you know what your doing!), and/or try the open tracker instead, or even that FS Tracker (i don't remember the exact name, but it's apparently even more capable than opentracker).. The tracker has quite a lot of influence on the responsiveness of BeOS....