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

[Laurent ETTOUATI]

Le 25/02/09 4:31, « David Wagner » <dhwagnertx at mac.com> a écrit :

> 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 and was listed as outdated.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 but they may be out of date.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.
> 
There is a more recent extended version of Mplayer OS X at this address,
http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/
with thorough explanations how to compile mplayer on mac os x,
http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/trac/

Laurent