[mythtv-users] mplayer and mythvideo on Mac OS Leopard

[Lasse Knudsen]

Thanks for the reply,

mplayer plays the vidoes without problems when i launch them directly from
the desktop. mplayer -identify wont do anything :) as the mplayer
application is not called mplayer but, "MPlayer OSX" :)



-lasse

On Jan 3, 2008 9:37 PM, <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have been using a mythtv frontends for a while now, but on linux. What
> i
> > want to do is to use mplayer to play the videos that i have. But my
> > problem
> > is that
>
> Your Mac video player might be having codec issues. Either it
> doesn't have the right ones or it doesn't like how the files
> are identifying themselves.
>
> What does "mplayer -identify" give you?
>
> >
> > when i type in the somewhat silly path to the mplayer app, to match the
> > type
> > of file i want
> >
> > /applications/mplayer.app/...... the only thing i get is the sound, i
> have
> > a
> > feeling that the video is running in the background. Here is the big
> > problem, i have no idea how to stop playback, i only have the sound and
> > then
> > the multicolored beachball that is rotating.
> >
> > Any one know how i can handle this problem, i would like for mplayer to
> > take
> > focus so i can see what is going on.
> >
> > im using a PC keyboard sooo any fancy apple keys wont help me :)
> >
> > br
> > Lasse Knudsen
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