[MPlayer-users] Mac

[InCosmo at fastmail.fm]

Kichigai helped:
>Are you using the precompiled OS X binaries, or are you compiling 
>MPlayer from scratch?
>
>If you're using the binaries, you probably just downloaded the front 
>end. The OS X binaries, if I remember correctly, come in two parts: 
>the binary applications, and the graphical front-end. You probably 
>just downloaded one and didn't get the other.
>
>If you're compiling, we need more to work with. I compiled MPlayer on 
>my system, both with OS X 10.3 and OS X 10.4, no problems like you're 
>describing, except when I used a broken option. But, I doubt that's
>your problem. The MPlayer source should have everything in it you need.

Asana, being inexperienced with this player, loaded down V. 1.0pro8 
from an officially-looking web site that was not maintained.

Turns out  MPlayerOSX2b8r5FORTIGERONLY
2005-05-20  is current

The correct page is at:

http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for you help, Kichigai!

asana


At 5:05 AM +0200 7/9/05, mplayer-users-request at mplayerhq.hu communicated:
>Asana had said:
>Friends:
>
>I checked the Archive and did not find what I am looking for.
>
>I just copied MPlayer OSX and it does not play anything. Now, I
>realize on other platforms more MPlayer decoder installations are
>required, but I can not find any decoders for Mac.
>
>Please either point me to the literature, or explain to me what the
>next step is.
>
>My wishes are to get this running as I am so sick of all the
>commercial players where one never knows if they work or not. I guess
>that is why you are doing this commandable project.
>
>asana