With the newer versions of mplayer and mplayer.sh, the instructions for installation on the Mac can be greatly simplified.
Here is my suggestion, for others to comment on. Once we have agreed instructions, these should replace the previous ones, which were rather complicated, due in part to several versions by different people being included. As you will see, I am in favour of spelling things out in great detail - some people may not be aware of certain features of the Mac. here goes: You need various files for AlienBBC. 1) AlienBBC itself. Make sure you download the version for your SlimServer (there are versions for SlimServer 6.2 and 6.5). You will be downloading a file whose name ends in .tar.gz, which your browser may or may not decompress into a file whose name ends in .tar. If your browser has not done this automatically, double-click on the .tar.gz file to get the .tar file. Now double-click on the .tar file, and you will get a folder whose name is something like alienbbc-linux with a version number at the end. In either your personal Library or the main Library on your hard drive there will be a folder named SlimDevices. All the contents of the alienbbc-linux folder need to be put in this SlimDevices folder. In particular, if the SlimDevices folder does not already contain a Plugins folder, you can just move or copy the Plugins folder from alienbbc-linux to SlimDevices; if you already have a Plugins folder in SlimDevices (because you have installed other plugins), you need to move or copy the contents of the Plugins folder in alienbbc-linux into the Plugins folder of SlimDevices. 2) The second item you need is mplayer. Click on the mplayer link at the top of the AlienBBC Web page, and towards the bottom of the resulting page is a link to download mplayer for Mac. This is again a .tar.gz file, which need to be dealt with as before. The resulting folder contains mplayer and also mencoder (which isn't needed). mplayer needs to be put in a suitable place, the best place (for reasons of tidiness and for historical reasons) being in /usr/local/bin. Note that this folder is normally invisible, but can be made visible using "Go to Folder" in the Finder's Go menu (either type /usr and navigate as usual, or type /usr/local/bin). If this is your first installation of mplayer, please ensure that you have the version given by these instructions. There are many places on the internet where you can download mplayer, and some of them give an older version of mplayer which requires further files to be downloaded and installed. If you already have a working version of mplayer, perhaps in another location, it should not be necessary to change it. 3) Finally, you need a program called LAME. The simplest way to install this is using iTunes-LAME plugin, from http://www.blacktree.com/apps/iTunes-LAME/index.php With all these installed, AlienBBC should work without problems, but you may want to stop and restart SlimServer to make sure that everything is picked up. If not, ask in the 3rd Party Plugins forum, and we should be able to get things working. QUESTION TO OTHER USERS Do we want to put in some details of how to debug, e.g. testing mplayer itself from the command line, running SlimServer from the command line? Should we mention the bug with AlienBBC playlists? I'm inclined not to, as this very minor issue will surely be cleared up in a future version (it's just a matter of some unwanted spaces on one line of one item) and won't affect that many people. -- danco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
