AlienBBC is now working fine for me, but some people are having trouble even getting mplayer to work. There are known issues with some versions of the codec not working with mplayer, and the main mplayer page has had problems lately.
So I think it's time for some experimentation on what works, what's available where, and so on. Probably a change in the instructions is needed. It would be great if the right versions of mplayer and the codec could be hosted on the AlienBBC page, but I do realise there are issues in this. I'm not myself up to changing a working system just to experiment and see what works and what doesn't but maybe others can do so, or at least report on their working configurations. Unfortunately I can't remember where I got the versions. The version of cook.bundle that works for me has size 112,758 bytes. I think the one with size 100,462 bytes does not work. My mplayer has size around 6.1 Mb. If, as the instructions suggest, you download Mplayer for OS X (which has a GUI) from the sourceforge site, then the Tiger version (I haven't checked the Panther version) has an actual mplayer file of only around 500 kb size, so there must be some major differences and this version is unlikely to work. I am not sure what places cook.bundle can safely be put in, but I had it in /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/reallib (a folder that I needed to create). The permissions included Read permissions for everybody, just in case this has caused problems for others. For completeness, I will mention the point I discovered earlier. Once mplayer is working ok, to get AlienBBC to work you *may* need to alter mplayer.sh so that the line app=mplayer contains the full path to mplayer. This holds even if mplayr is in /usr/local/bin (though some people don't need to do this) in which case the line needs to be app=/usr/local/bin/mplayer And if you make this change using an OS X text editor (rather than a Unix text editor using Terminal) be sure that the text editor allows Unix line endings - I've been caught with that one on occasions. -- danco _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
