MPlayer

tsuraan2 · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 44

I submitted this as a bug report, but nobody seems to have noticed, so I'm submitting it here too. I'm made a hackish ebuild for installing MPlayer under macos. The link is http://tsuraan.icompute.com/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r4.ebuild . You have to be really conservative on the USE flags because most of the options for MPlayer don't work yet, but the player itself works rather well, at least for me.

I'd love to hear if this is working for other people.

JHuber · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 33

I use the native port of mplayer on osx. works fine.
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pi-cubic · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 143

trentin · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:10 am Post subject:

sure it is, you just have to do a tiny hack:
open the terminal and go to:

/Applications/MPlayer\ OS\ X\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/

and from here either just copy the binary mplayer into say /usr/local/bin, or just make a symlink i i did.

pi-cubic · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 143

nice, i just realized that 2 binaries exist. one executable "mplayer" and another called "Mplayer OS x". The first can be invoked from the command line...

(but how do i include /usr/local/bin in my path :roll:

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trentin · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:45 pm Post subject:

very simple :-)

just add /usr/local/bin to your PATH variable in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile (if you use for instance the korn shell, like me), or you can add it to the /etc/profile file.

for example (type this into one of the files mentioned above)

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

remeber, MacOS X is a UNIX, so pretty much all of the stuff you used to do with linux (or one of the UNIXes) can be done here in the same or very similar way (that is if you have been a unix user :-)

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pi-cubic · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 143

atom · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject:

just to note, the full path to the command line executable for me (12-12-04 mplayer) is as follows:

remkade · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 74 Location: Somewhere

You can actually download the mplayer sources and compile them from scratch. Works fine for me. I actually like it better than Mplayer OS X. I think if you try to install them both you will mess up the OS X gui version.
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trentin · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:47 am Post subject:

i don't think this should be an issue, because the standard ./configure; make; make install would put the mplayer binary into /usr/local/bin, where as the MPlayer.app would use the binary that is located in its bundle.
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hparra · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:13 am Post subject: mplayer native vs. emerged

I have an iBook G3 600. No Quartz Extreme, a sad ATI Rage 128. Playing movies of a certain size on Mplayer native ran very slowly. I bumped into another mplayer port called djoPlayer which seemed to run a little faster. Was wondering if any of those flags that you had to be conservative on were optimization flags.

Thanks.

Duty · Apprentice Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 253

tsuraan2, I tried your ebuild but it conked out with '../postproc/swscale_internal.h:148: error: parse error before "vector"'. It does this with the standard ebuild too, but at a different spot.

Anyone know how to fix this error?

Also 1.0-pre6 fails due to 'ldt_keeper.c:119: error: unknown register name `eax' in `asm'', this is in an #IFDEF ALTIVEC block but I turned off altivec use flag and it didn't help.