[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Mac OS X Finder support

[Nicolas Plourde]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

>Hi,
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>>>This patch allows mplayer to be launched from the finder, to be used 
>>>as default application for a filetype and to be used as a drop target 
>>>if placed on the dock. The compiled mplayer binary must be either 
>>>packaged in an appwrapper directory, with an appropriate Info.plist 
>>>describing the supported filetypes or a suitable resource fork must be 
>>>grafted to the binary -- both methods, as a side effect, will remove 
>>>the need for the "foreground operation" workaround in vo_quartz.c in 
>>>function preinit. The first way is the one currently recomended by 
>>>apple, whereas the second is somewhat "cleaner" in the current 
>>>building environment. At the moment the patch does NEITHER.
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>>Anyone care to comment on this patch? Can it be commited?
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>Ok, just a quick reply...
>Well, it adds a big hunk of code to mplayer.c - I don't really like
>that, especially as it's system specific. Could it be put in a seperate
>file (maybe in osdep??), best even with possibility to disable?
>Also I think there are already quite a few escaping/unescaping functions in MPlayer, maybe it's not necessary to add another one, but I don't know...
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I will look into that, Maybe the patch author can come up with something.
Anyway this patch can make thing easier for me with vo_quartz.

Thank for the comment Reimar.

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Nicolas Plourde <nicolas.plourde at sympatico.ca>