[MPlayer-users] Mac

[Kichigai Mentat]

On Jul 8, 2005, at 16.31, InCosmo at fastmail.fm wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I checked the Archive and did not find what I am looking for.
You won't need to.
>
> 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.
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.
>
> Please either point me to the literature, or explain to me what the  
> next step is.
Again, we'd need to know more about which distro of MPlayer you're  
using. Binary, or source?
>
> 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

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