When I posted the original instructions, I had to assume a certain level of knowledge on the part of users. The debugging test I suggested says "for instance, type "mplayer -playlist ..."
I said this because at that stage it seemed likely that people might be installing mplayer in all sorts of places, and I thought they would realise that one might need to specify the exact path to mplayer. When you say you "ran the test at the end" I assume you mean trying with "mplayer -playlist ..." Due to an issue with Mac OS (essentially that the PATH environment variable is not detailed enough) this will report that the player is not found. You have to type /usr/local/bin/mplayer -playlist ... assuming that you have (as you probably have) mplayer in /usr/local/bin Also, as the instructions do say, you have to modify mplayer.sh (the AlienBBC people are currently looking into ways of getting rid of this step) so that, near the beginning, app=mplayer is changed into app=/usr/local/bin/mplayer. What that instruction doesn't say is that you MUST NOT use TextEdit to make that change. TextEdit does not preserve Unix line endings, and this screws things up. Edit in the Terminal if you are used to Unix, or download a text editor such as TextWrangler (free) or Tex-Edit Plus which have options to save with Unix line endings. Oh, and the BBC radio stations take at least ten seconds, maybe more, to start up once you have chosen one to play. It is probably best to increase the Radio Station Timeout (from the web interface , Server settings, Network). -- danco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22467 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
