[MPlayer-users] Mac OSX mplayer file associations

[Greg Bryant]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:50 PM, <towb at gmx.net> wrote:

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> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Mac OSX mplayer file associations
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> On 05.04.2009, at 20:44, Greg Bryant wrote:
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> > I'm trying to associate files (.mp4 for example) with mplayer rather
> > than
> > quicktime, but when I go to the list of apps, mplayer is gray, and not
> > selectable.
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> Launch Services only accepts applications, not simple Unix binaries.
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> (a workaround is Platypus)
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> Where did you get, or how did you build mplayer?


SVN, configure with a bunch of stuff (including --enable-macosx and
--enable-macosx-finder), then make.

I'll read up on platypus - thanks.

Greg