OK, I quite see your point. It does seem to work differently on the Mac. Actually the issue is an error in the MacOS environment variables- there is a path missing. To be precise, in Tiger (for earlier versions, the PATH is set from a different file) csh.login reads
setenv PATH "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" with no mention of /usr/local/bin So there are several ways to deal with this. 1. a slightly different version of mplayer.sh for Mac. 2. Putting mplayer in /usr/bin rather than /usr/local/bin. I suspect that this would work, but hesitate to suggest it in case it breaks something else. The installation instructions in most versions of mplayer do suggest it should go into /usr/local/bin. 3. Change csh.login. This is probably quite easy, but a mistake in doing it could create a lot of damage. Anyway it is no easier than 4. 4. Simply ask people to edit mplayer.sh. The problem here is that the easiest text editor to use for the average user (who does not want to use an editor in the Terminal, and does not feel like downloading a different text editor even though it is free) is TextEdit, which is included with the OS, and this breaks things because it does not preserve Unix line endings. But it isn't difficult to get hold of a suitable text editor, and this is probably the best solution all round. When we come to producing a new set of instructions (soon, particularly as the newest mplayer does not require an additional codec) this needs to be mentioned explicitly. In fact, I think I did mention it in one version of the instructions, but that never made its way onto the instructions page. -- danco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22476 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
