[MPlayer-users] How to get Apple Remote to work on OS X 10.8.2

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 03:32:48PM -0500, algiz algiz wrote:
> FWIIW, tested mplayer2 build by pigoz from http://code.google.com/p/mplayerosx-builds/ -- the same problem, Apple Remote does not work.
>  mplayer2 seems to be using input/ar.c that is essentially same as in mplayer tree.
> 
>  Would appreciate any suggestions how to get the problem sorted out, 

You could run
gcc -o ar_test input/ar.c -DTEST
and run it, see what messages it prints.
Unfortunately the ar.c code does not seem to contain a single
debug printout that would help track the issue down.
It's also possible that the code simple cannot work on
newer OSX versions.