On May 10, 2007, at 5:26 AM, Boey Maun Suang wrote:

Hi Elise,

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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).

+binary_codecs on intel currently installs the .dll's, but does not use them. I've been hoping the MPlayer team would come out with a new rc (supposedly this is fixed in svn), but updating the port to use a svn snapshot is on my todo list. In the meantime you might want to try VLC, I know they have a lot of codecs supported too... Thanks, Eric