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


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