MPlayer

[tsuraan2]

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]

I use the native port of mplayer on osx. works fine.

[pi-cubic]

I use the native port of mplayer on osx. works fine.

is it possible to run the native mplayer from the command line?

[trentin]

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]

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 )

[trentin]

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 )

[pi-cubic]

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 )

the thing is that i had in mind the darwin bsd has its special "correct" places for many things, so i wanted to learn the "correct" way. but the more i get in touch with darwin i realize the thing you said

[atom]

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

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

[remkade]

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.

[trentin]

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.

[hparra]

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]

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.