BetterPlayer

[Info-Mac]

Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/app/better-player.hqx

BetterPlayer 1.0 was FTP to infomac.org as betterplayer.hqx, below is the

press release that went with the file.



contact: Matthew Beedle @ [email protected]

President of Foxchange Shareware @ http://www.foxchange.com



Foxchange Shareware announces

BetterPlayer 1.0, the alternate QuickTime Player



February 1, 2000, Battle Mountain, NV - Foxchange Shareware announces the

release of BetterPlayer 1.0.



BetterPlayer is a freeware open source utility that plays QuickTime movies

without the clunky UN-Mac like interface that was introduced into QuickTime

Player and Sherlock 2.



BetterPlayer plays QuickTime movies that are either dropped onto the

application or opened within. Once a QT movie has been opened, users can

change the file type and creator so that the file will open with BetterPlayer

by default. Other useful options that have been added are automatically play

and loop options that can be applied to every file individually. This is

especially cool for those that have a favorite MIDI file they like to listen

too, just double click and the file will start to open.



To make life easier, these settings can become default settings as well as

the option to automatically change the file type and creator to that of

BetterPlayer. Just as important as applying these settings, they can also be

removed restoring the file to it's natural state. Since the only thing that


the application.



Foxchange Shareware has released BetterPlayer as open source software so that

other programmers can extend the application's functionality. Several things

are planned for future releases, the ability to add a resource fork to a file

that doesn't have one so BetterPlayer can work with it, sizing options,

remembering window positions as well as basic editing features.



BetterPlayer is the foundation for another unnamed application that Foxchange

Shareware may be developing in the possible future.



Currently BetterPlayer 1.0 is available for download at

ftp://ftp.foxchange.com

The latest version of BetterPlayer can be found at http://www.foxchange.com



As well as the goal of producing high quality games for the Mac market,

Foxchange Shareware is also going to be introducing utilities into the Mac

market.