[MPlayer-users] Question about building Mac OS X version from SVN

[David Wagner]

On Feb 24, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Michael Gaskins wrote:

> Ok, I'm having trouble finding a straightforward bit of  
> documentation to
> explain this.  I recently acquired a Mac that I'm trying to use for  
> video,
> and Quicktime has some annoying quirks, so I'm trying to use MPlayer
> instead.  The Mac OS X binary on the site worked ok, but had a few  
> issues
> and was listed as outdated.  Being a longtime Linux user, I'm  
> comfortable
> compiling from source, so I grabbed the lastest and compiled it. As
> expected, I got an executable file, mplayer, within the current  
> directory.
>
> Here's my issue though: this is command line only.  The regular Mac  
> OS X
> build has a GUI included.  Trying the --enable-gui flag doesn't do  
> anything
> as that's the X11 GUI which isn't supported under Mac OS X.  Is  
> there any
> way to actually utilize the Mac GUI in this context?
>
> Also, is it possible to build a standard .app package that I can  
> copy into
> my applications folder, rather than launching from the command line?
> Thanks.

The answer to the last question is yes. There are some instructions at
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/macos.html#osx_gui

but they may be out of date.  It's been six months or more since I  
built MplayerOSX, and I can't remember what I did.

David Wagner