However, please note that the HU download page does not work at present, though the others do work.
I'm not at all clear what you get when you download. As usual, the file you get is a "package" (that is, a directory that appears to the user as a file). Control-click on this and "Show package contents", and under MacOS you find MPlayer OSX, which is a Unix executable file of size 136Kb that, as far as I can see is not what one wants. But follow the path through Resources and External Binaries and you find an application called mplayer size 10.7Mb. This is still not what is wanted, but Show Package Contents again on that and under MacOS there is a Unix executable file called mplayer of size 5.4 Mb. I suspect this is what is needed, as my working mplayer is 6.1 Mb and was a fair bit older than this one. Download the essential codecs package and unpack it, and you get a folder containing a file called cook.so (not cook.bundle, as I have on my system). This should be what's needed. You've still got to put it in the right place. The mplayer instructions (which probably hold for the Mac) say to put it in /usr/local/lib/codecs. As usual, you need to Go to Folder option in the Finder to be able to see the normally invisible folder /usr (you can either go to /usr or straight to /usr/local/lib). You will have to create the folder codecs and put cook.so in it. I don't feel like trying all this myself, as I have a working configuration, but this may well be the way to start a new installation. As stated in the AlienBBC instructions, and elsewhere, next thing to do is to test mplayer on a BBC stream. If that is working, then try AlienBBC as per the instructions but probably changing the app=mplayer line to point to the full path for mplayer (best in /usr/local/nin) -- danco _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
