good day, list reader, I've been trying to install mplayer on my new iBook G4 using fink and having it play also realaudio streams... searched for the solution on the net and on this list, but I'm not so good at looking, or there wasn't a solution yet. don't know. anyways: I'm writing here what I had to do.
the error I was receiving was this: La famiglia di codec audio richiesta [racook] (afm=realaud) non รจ disponibile (abilita in compilazione!) or: Requested audio codec family [racook] (afm=realaud) not available. Enable it at compilation. the solution is actually quite easy, only the order of things to do was not so obvious. this will work if you have installed a recent version of RealPlayer, containing the Helix codecs. edit the configuration file mplayer.info in /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics/ find the line defining the ConfigureParams and add the following --with-codecsdir=/Applications/RealPlayer.app/Contents/Frameworks/HXClientKit.framework/HelixPlugins/Codecs then remove the installed mplayer and the already built mplayer deb file from /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/graphics/ . now rebuild and the mplayer will now see the codecs... there was an other small problem, for some reasons mplayer tries to write into a non existing directory. I had to create it like this: mkdir /tmp/ksocket-$USER what did I miss that it did not work just out of the box? for the rest, this fink thing is really almost as comfortable as debian, thanks a lot. regards, Mario Frasca -- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
