Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
There's a very simple way to view hidden files, and you don't need to worry about Terminal (or Googling for instructions). Go to Folder in the Go menu of the Finder allows one to type in any name, so just type /usr and you get to that folder and all its subfolders. There's no actual need for things to be in /usr/local/bin, but, if my memory serves, I think the default installation of lame puts it there, and mplayer should be in the same folder as lame. The point about /usr/local/bin is first that it may not exist until you create it, but some third-party applications create it when they are installed, and it is useful to keep /usr/bin for just Apple's own items - it helps to distinguish one from the other. -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
I am not an OSX user/owner - the following are the instructions from Danco for a PPC version. When you are looking look for a folder with "Intel" in the name. > > Quote: > > As I remarked earlier, the actual mplayer file is deeply hidden inside > MPlayer OSX. > > Control-click to Show Package Contents. > > Go to Contents > Resources > External_Binaries, and you will see an > item called mplayer. > > This still isn't what we want. > > Control-click again and once more Show Package Contents. Contents > contains a folder called MacOS, which in turn contains two Unix files, > mplayer and mplayer_noaltivec. > > A couple of minutes check with mplayer shows that it works for > AlienBBC on my PowerBook G4 (unless problems arise with a longer > check). Older machines don't have altivec (not sure if Intel ones do), > so presumably would need to use mplayer_noaltivec, but would need to > rename it to mplayer to get it to work with AlienBBC. > -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
Once you get to the mplayer installation part of the alienBBC installation for mac instructions, download the file that you are pointed to. It is a compressed file, if you double click it it should uncompress (stufitt expander works if it doesn't uncompress on your mac). In the decompressed folder are two files, one is called mplayer. Do a google search on how to view hidden files in OSX (you will need to type a command into terminal, which is in your utilities folder). Find the folder described in the installation instructions (user/local/bin?) which should also have the previously installed "lame". Add mplayer to that folder. Make your invisible files invisible again and restart the mac. AlienBBC should now work. -- tday01 tday01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
apologies bpa but I do not know what "the user needs to extract the command line mplayer executable." means can you help just a wee bit more stephen -- smcn smcn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
The note on the AlienBBC wesbite was specific to the Unofficial build of mplayer on that website. At the time there was no official mplayerhq 1.0pre8 build for OSX which was necessary version for the live radio streams. As a service to other OSX users the mplayer was hosted. The mplayerhq site now have an up to date OSX build (1.0rc1) for both Intel and PPC. To install mplayer from mplayerhq for use with AlienBBC, the user needs to extract the command line mplayer executable. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
I followed the instructions and installed mplayer as described (after I had worked out how to view hidden files). Alien BBC works fine. Tony -- tday01 tday01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
I just went to load alienbbc on my mac and noticed the following warning at stage 3 (MPlayer): "These binaries are built on Mac OS X for the PPC platform. They will not work on Intel-based Macs. " Is there a work around for this? Thanks Tony -- tday01 tday01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
That message means the AlienBBC plugins hasn't been installed properly or slimserver hasn't been restarted after a good installation. Also make sure you have downloaded the correct AlienBBC for the version of Slimserver. One of the AlienBBC webpages has a misleading link for AlienBBC. Do you have a AlienBBC menu item on the main web page ? Are there RTSP entries in the Server Setting/Filetypes pages ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
1) I have an intel imac operating 10.49 2)I have a netgear wireless router 3)I have downloaded alienbbc, lame and mplayer as per instructions-ie put lame and mplayer into a folder /usr/local/bin 4)alienbbc shows on squeezebox but I have an error message "RTSP convert error check file types" this means absolutely nothing to m your help and wisdom again sought stephen -- smcn smcn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac
It is possible - same as an normal Mac but it will not work if you have a new Apple Airport Extreme. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35078 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
