Thanks man, the official AlienBBC page should list this post under their "directions" section. AlienBBC finally works for me after much frustration.
g danco Wrote: > OK, I've done a bit more checking and would suggest the following. > > Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=62947 > > which gives a whole lot of downloadable files. > > In the section "mencoder and mplayer" download a suitable 'lastbinary' > (there's one for Tiger only and one for earlier versions). > > In the section "ffmpegX_recommended_bins" download reallib.zip > > These give the program and the codec you need, and these should work > well together (they do for me, but you may have to check). You have to > put them in the right place. mplayer is probably best in > /usr/local/bin. Remember that you don't have to do anything clever in > Terminal to put things in this normally invisible folder, you can just > use "Go to Folder" in the Finder's Go menu. > > The only codec you need is cook.bundle. It seems that with the latest > mplayer this codec needs to be in the folder /usr/local/lib/codecs > (which you have to create), though earlier versions of mplayer expected > it in /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/reallib. > > Now test mplayer on a suitable stream. Open terminal and run as > suggested in the AlienBBC instruction page (I don't give details here, > as the path gets truncated in the forum). You may, depending on your > setup, have to type > > mplayer ... > > or possibly > > /usr/local/bin/mplayer. > > If this doesn't work, you need to do more checking. The log produced my > player may help. > > If it does work, you know that mplayer is fine, and you just have to > get AlienBBC working. > > Follow the instructions on the AlienBBC page. If you don't get any > sound when playing a stream, the likelihood is that mplayer.sh needs > modifying, replacing > > app=mplayer > > by > > app=/usr/local/bin/mplayer -- shatten22 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
