On 9/20/06, Mario Frasca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > good day, list reader, > > I've been trying to install mplayer on my new iBook G4 using fink and > having it play also realaudio streams... searched for the solution on > the net and on this list, but I'm not so good at looking, or there > wasn't a solution yet. don't know. anyways: I'm writing here what I > had to do. > > the error I was receiving was this: > > La famiglia di codec audio richiesta [racook] (afm=realaud) non รจ > disponibile (abilita in compilazione!) > or: > Requested audio codec family [racook] (afm=realaud) not available. > Enable it at compilation. > > the solution is actually quite easy, only the order of things to do was > not so obvious. > > this will work if you have installed a recent version of RealPlayer, > containing the Helix codecs. > > edit the configuration file mplayer.info in > /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics/ > > find the line defining the ConfigureParams and add the following > --with-codecsdir=/Applications/RealPlayer.app/Contents/Frameworks/HXClientKit.framework/HelixPlugins/Codecs > > then remove the installed mplayer and the already built mplayer deb > file from /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/graphics/ . > now rebuild and the mplayer will now see the codecs... > > there was an other small problem, for some reasons mplayer tries to > write into a non existing directory. I had to create it like this: > > mkdir /tmp/ksocket-$USER > > what did I miss that it did not work just out of the box? for the rest, > this fink thing is really almost as comfortable as debian, thanks a lot. > > regards, > Mario Frasca > > -- > Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. > Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. > -- Groucho Marx. > >
(you didn't have to remove the .deb by the way--the "fink rebuild" command would have overwritten it.) Fink's mplayer package isn't set up to know about RealPlayer, and it would take a fair amount of effort to make a variant that would handle realaudio. I'm not sure about the temporary directory issue. I'll take a look and post back. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
