Mplayer and apple remote

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 17:07, Matrix Mole wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I presume it's the infrared Apple Remote device that comes with newer
>> Macs. You could ask the maintainer of the MPlayer port or the  
>> developers
>> of the MPlayer software if you want to know for sure.
>
>
> I see in the Portfile for MPlayer that the maintainer is listed as:
>
> maintainers         ecronin \
> ~                    openmaintainer
>
> Unfortunately, on the Developers page at macports, the link to ecronin
> appears to generate a 404 error. Does anyone know how to get ahold of
> him, or have his email handy to forward my question on to?

No need to look in the Portfile itself. Just type "port info  
MPlayer". That will print out the maintainer's complete email  
address, which in this case ends with macports.org

> If I can't get a hold of the maintainer, then I'll have no recourse  
> but
> to subscribe to the mplayer mail lists to ask my question there
> (although it seems kind of silly to go through the entire subscription
> process only to ask a single question and then leave).

Sadly, that's how many mailing lists work. :) And it's how they have  
to work, to reduce spam.