Installing mplayer

[Boey Maun Suang]

Hi Elise,

> Which variants should one choose when installing mplayer on an  
> Intel MacBook running OS 10.4.9? I've installed fontconfig  
> (pkgconfig was already installed). I'm hoping mplayer will let me  
> play all those videos on the BBC website that RealPlayer gives  
> connection errors on.

+binary_codecs will install the files containing whatever support  
MPlayer has for RealMedia on the Mac; I've had success listening to  
RealAudio from the BBC website, but I've never tried accessing  
RealVideo streams.  As for the other variants, for now you should be  
able to Google their names and get enough information to find out  
what they do (we will be adding support for descriptions of variants  
some time in the future).

Kind regards,


Maun Suang

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