[MPlayer-users] Using -audiofile in Mac OS X

[Philip Jacob Smith]

I can't get "-audiofile" to work in Mac OS X.

Command line:  /Applications/MPlayer\ OSX.app/Contents/MacOS/MPlayer\  
OSX "mf://video/*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -audiofile video/audio.wav

It works in Linux, but in Mac OS X, the video plays without the  
audio.  MPlayer will play the audio alone if I tell it to just play  
the audio, but it won't play it along with the video.

MPlayer output:

Pj at awesomecross:~/video/test$ /Applications/MPlayer\ OSX.app/Contents/ 
MacOS/MPlayer\ OSX "mf://final/*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -audiofile final/ 
audio.wav
MPlayer dev-SVN-r21482-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7300  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6,  
Model: 15, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Playing mf://final/*.jpg.
[mf] search expr: final/*.jpg
[mf] number of files: 9894 (39576)
[demux_mf] file type was not set! trying 'type=jpg'...
VIDEO:  [IJPG]  0x0  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
= 
= 
========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
= 
= 
========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 3)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv420p to yuyv422 using MMX2
SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
SwScaler: 320x240 -> 320x240
VO: [macosx] 320x240 => 320x240 Packed YUY2

The option seems to be ignored.  I don't get an error if I specify a  
file that doesn't exist.

I'd really love for this to work because I've been using MPlayer along  
with ffmpeg and some Perl scripts as a video editor.  At first I did  
so in Linux because I couldn't find a video editor that worked, or  
that I could install, and now that I'm in MacOS I've found that iMovie  
won't do 320x240, and it apparently hates the AVI files created by my  
digital camera, even though they play in Quicktime.  So I just want to  
do things the way I was doing them in Linux, as editing with Perl  
scripts is rather fun anyway.  If I come up with an idea, like making  
scrolling credits with a little video of people scrolling next to  
their names, I can do it, and it looks rather impressive to see  
several pieces of video on the screen at once, but it's as simple as a  
Perl script that uses ImageMagick to composite the frames together  
along with successive portions of a really tall image I created in a  
graphics program with the text to be scrolled on it.  I imagine I'm  
having more fun with these Perl scripts than I would have with a real  
video editor anyway, but it doesn't work if I don't have MPlayer to  
play random samples as I'm working on a project.

I also thought I would simplify things for myself by making a symlink  
from /usr/local/bin/mplayer to /Applications/MPlayer\ OSX.app/Contents/ 
MacOS/MPlayer\ OSX, but for some reason that doesn't work.  Anyone  
know why?