Just got back from holiday, and will reply in more detail later. Re /usr/local/bin. The use of this folder is partly for historical reasons and partly for tidiness.
Historical: the ealier versions of mplayer in their own installation instructions recommended use of this folder, and as other files also had to be installed, I thought it was problematic to change these instructions. Tidness: Apple puts some of its own unixy programs into /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. There does seem some point in keeping third-party programs in a separate folder, such as /usr/local/bin. I seem to have a lot of items in my /usr/local/bin, and I certainly didn't install them manually, I think they were created when I installed some other program, as supporting items. Usually, when one doesn't have permission to write to a folder, all that is needed is to authenticate as an administrator. So this isn't a real issue, but should have some mention in the instructions. kefa's points. 1 and 4 do work together, I am sure, but it's exactly that kind of stuff that we want to try to avoid for newcomers. Equally for 2. The original instructions were a mess, because several people produced them independently, and there was no proper reconciliation of them. It is MOST DEFINITELY better to follow my instructions about which version of mplayer to download (not necessarily about where to put them), and about using iTunes-LAME. I have no experience of Intel Macs, it is possible (though I don't see why) that the instructions need changing for them. crouchend, I'll suggest things to try when I am more together. Have you tried running mplayer from the command line? If so, what do you get? It wouldn't surprise me if there were issues with Lame. Anyway, that's the first bit of debugging to try. Everyone. From the point of view of mplayer.sh it doesn't matter whether mplayer is in /usr/bin. /usr/sbin, or /usr/local/bin. As remarked by others, the first two are on the system path, while the third isn't (but the recent change in mplayer.sh deals with this). -- 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
