I have now got AlienBBC working with Tiger, and I can see why some people are having trouble (under Tiger and Panther) while others have it working without difficulty.
We have always known that if mplayer is put in an arbitrary location then the line app=mplayer in mplayer.sh needs to be modifed to point to the full path. The consensus has been that if mplayer is placed in /usr/local/bin then AlienBBC will work without altering mplayer.sh It turns out that this is only partially true. Some people may get it working without changing mplayer, but other may still need to change the line app=mplayer into app=/usr/local/bin/mplayer. I also changed the first line, /bin/sh into /bin/bash, but this may well not be necessary. It can also do no harm, but may not be necessary, to restart the sytem after making the change in mplayer.sh. Thats all you need to know, but if you want the Unix background to the situation, and an alternative solution to the problem, read on. The default shell in Mac OS 10.2 Jaguar is tcsh, but in Panther and Tiger the default is bash. However, if one is upgrading from a system whose shell is tcsh then this will remain the shell, it wont change to bash. Whichever shell is used, the line app=mplayer will look for mplayer in those directories (folders) listed in the file /etc/csh.login As far as I can see, if the default was tcsh then this file contains in its list the directory /usr/local/bin However, I just got a new computer with Tiger pre-installed, and I havent made any changes. It turns out that the supplied csh.login file does NOT list /usr/local/bin. So one has to put in the full path to make things work if mplayer is in /usr/local/bin, but may not need to if one is running on an upgrade from an earlier system. So some people have trouble, but others have no difficulty. The alternative solution is, of course, to edit the csh.login fil so that it does contain /usr/local/bin, but one needs a little bit of user knowledge of Unix to do this. -- danco _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
