Installing mplayer

[Eric Cronin]

On May 10, 2007, at 5:26 AM, Boey Maun Suang wrote:

> 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).

+binary_codecs on intel currently installs the .dll's, but does not  
use them.  I've been hoping the MPlayer team would come out with a  
new rc (supposedly this is fixed in svn), but updating the port to  
use a svn snapshot is on my todo list.  In the meantime you might  
want to try VLC, I know they have a lot of codecs supported too...

Thanks,
Eric
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