Standalone MPlayer for 10.4 & 10.5

[wicknix]

I put together a little package that will save users a ton of space (vs the other mplayer package that's available), and it will not interfere with their current macports installs if they have it installed. This can probably also be used in conjunction with @alex_free 's PPCMC (i haven't looked to see if mplayers path is hard coded in PPCMC or not yet) if you prefer mplayer over ffplay or VLC. This package includes standalone binary of mplayer. It will install to /usr/local/bin. Total installed size is roughly 28MB. A README is in the archive for more info.
Download here

Cheers

Edit: works on tiger, but mplayer crashes on leopard. i'll try to figure this out. sorry i jumped the gun.
Edit 2: Updated post as it now works. New download link added.

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[wicknix]

Ok. For whatever reason this will not work on Leopard. It just crashes. Guess i'll eventually do a seperate build on Leopard for that. Anyway, would anybody running 10.4 be willing to test this for me? It works on my install, but i want to verify. If it works then this saves loads of space. The installed package size is 40MB. It will install to /usr/local/bin (which is already in your ~.profiles PATH by default), so just typing: mplayer in terminal will launch it.

If it fails you can easily delete the files: sudo rm /usr/local/bin/mplayer && rm /usr/local/bin/mencoder

Download: here

Cheers

 

[galgot]

Hi !
Just tried it on a Ti running 10.4.11 with no Macports install.
Funny thing, /usr/local/bin wasn't in my bash_profile PATH... I thought that was done by default too. Anyway, added it there.
I get :
Illegal instruction
msg in terminal when I try launching it. And the popup window "The Application mplayer quit unexpectedly"
I did click"send to Apple" the report, just so they work on serious things.
Here it is attached :

 

[wicknix]

Dang. Thanks for testing. That's the same issue i have when trying it on Leopard. I'll keep poking at it.

Cheers

 

[alex_free]

Hi !
Just tried it on a Ti running 10.4.11 with no Macports install.
Funny thing, /usr/local/bin wasn't in my bash_profile PATH... I thought that was done by default too. Anyway, added it there.
I get :
Illegal instruction
msg in terminal when I try launching it. And the popup window "The Application mplayer quit unexpectedly"
I did click"send to Apple" the report, just so they work on serious things.
Here it is attached :

@wicknix /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin are not in $PATH by default on any Mac OS X older then Leopard, Apple and their infinite wisdom and all that ya know?

 

[wicknix]

Right? Guess I didn't notice as I don't use Tiger for anything really. Just as a TFF/AF-PPC/IW-PPC dev OS. Everything else is running Linux or Leopard for my daily needs.

Cheers

 

[wicknix]

@galgot ok, lets try this again. I think i got it. New package here.

 

[galgot]

@galgot ok, lets try this again. I think i got it. New package here.

Yes, you got it
A 360 run fine :


The 520 vid run fine, but with a sound shift.


A 720 is just too slow. But can't ask too much from this 867Mhz Ti.

Thanks, good to have this.

 

[Dronecatcher]

I had inconsistent results on my 800Mhz G4 iMac - 720P playback was out whilst that is just possible with the old mplayer (with hard frame drop options.)
I did expect that though but I also found there were huge audio sync issues with MP4 encoded with Apple MPEG Compressor.
Still, good to have for better compatibilty on newer formats.

 

[wicknix]

Thanks for testing! Updated original post, and i can confirm it works on Leopard also.

Cheers

 

[alex_free]

Thanks for testing! Updated original post, and i can confirm it works on Leopard also.

Cheers

This should actually already work with PPCMC, if you use the edit media player command option while setting your preferences you can override the file path of Mplayer to this.

 

[wicknix]

This should actually already work with PPCMC, if you use the edit media player command option while setting your preferences you can override the file path of Mplayer to this.

Nice!