Hi Elise,
Which variants should one choose when installing mplayer on an Intel MacBook running OS 10.4.9? I've installed fontconfig (pkgconfig was already installed). I'm hoping mplayer will let me play all those videos on the BBC website that RealPlayer gives connection errors on.
+binary_codecs will install the files containing whatever support MPlayer has for RealMedia on the Mac; I've had success listening to RealAudio from the BBC website, but I've never tried accessing RealVideo streams. As for the other variants, for now you should be able to Google their names and get enough information to find out what they do (we will be adding support for descriptions of variants some time in the future). Kind regards, Maun Suang -- Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) Email: boeyms@macports.org