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lasse.h.knudsen at gmail

Jan 3, 2008, 12:27 PM

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mplayer and mythvideo on Mac OS Leopard

Greetings,

I have been using a mythtv frontends for a while now, but on linux. What i
want to do is to use mplayer to play the videos that i have. But my problem
is that

when i type in the somewhat silly path to the mplayer app, to match the type
of file i want

/applications/mplayer.app/...... the only thing i get is the sound, i have a
feeling that the video is running in the background. Here is the big
problem, i have no idea how to stop playback, i only have the sound and then
the multicolored beachball that is rotating.

Any one know how i can handle this problem, i would like for mplayer to take
focus so i can see what is going on.

im using a PC keyboard sooo any fancy apple keys wont help me :)

br
Lasse Knudsen

jedi at mishnet

Jan 3, 2008, 12:37 PM

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Re: mplayer and mythvideo on Mac OS Leopard [In reply to]

> Greetings,
>
> I have been using a mythtv frontends for a while now, but on linux. What i
> want to do is to use mplayer to play the videos that i have. But my
> problem
> is that

Your Mac video player might be having codec issues. Either it
doesn't have the right ones or it doesn't like how the files
are identifying themselves.

What does "mplayer -identify" give you?

>
> when i type in the somewhat silly path to the mplayer app, to match the
> type
> of file i want
>
> /applications/mplayer.app/...... the only thing i get is the sound, i have
> a
> feeling that the video is running in the background. Here is the big
> problem, i have no idea how to stop playback, i only have the sound and
> then
> the multicolored beachball that is rotating.
>
> Any one know how i can handle this problem, i would like for mplayer to
> take
> focus so i can see what is going on.
>
> im using a PC keyboard sooo any fancy apple keys wont help me :)
>
> br
> Lasse Knudsen
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jra at baylink

Jan 3, 2008, 12:44 PM

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Re: mplayer and mythvideo on Mac OS Leopard [In reply to]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:27:07PM +0100, Lasse Knudsen wrote:
> /applications/mplayer.app/...... the only thing i get is the sound,
> i have a feeling that the video is running in the background.
> Here is the big problem, i have no idea how to stop playback, i
> only have the sound and then the multicolored beachball that is
> rotating. Any one know how i can handle this problem, i would like
> for mplayer to take focus so i can see what is going on. im using
> a PC keyboard sooo any fancy apple keys wont help me :)

mplayer is known to fail to take focus and be hard to kill if it isn't
playing video, which could be the case if your codecs are whacked,
indeed.

If you're launching mplayer from a text console window, though, I would
expect that a) you could see it in the console window, and b) you could
kill it howmever you do that on OS/X. Ctrl-C?

Cheers,
-- jra
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lasse.h.knudsen at gmail

Jan 3, 2008, 12:46 PM

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Re: mplayer and mythvideo on Mac OS Leopard [In reply to]

Thanks for the reply,

mplayer plays the vidoes without problems when i launch them directly from
the desktop. mplayer -identify wont do anything :) as the mplayer
application is not called mplayer but, "MPlayer OSX" :)

-lasse

On Jan 3, 2008 9:37 PM, <jedi [at] mishnet> wrote:

> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have been using a mythtv frontends for a while now, but on linux. What
> i
> > want to do is to use mplayer to play the videos that i have. But my
> > problem
> > is that
>
> Your Mac video player might be having codec issues. Either it
> doesn't have the right ones or it doesn't like how the files
> are identifying themselves.
>
> What does "mplayer -identify" give you?
>
> >
> > when i type in the somewhat silly path to the mplayer app, to match the
> > type
> > of file i want
> >
> > /applications/mplayer.app/...... the only thing i get is the sound, i
> have
> > a
> > feeling that the video is running in the background. Here is the big
> > problem, i have no idea how to stop playback, i only have the sound and
> > then
> > the multicolored beachball that is rotating.
> >
> > Any one know how i can handle this problem, i would like for mplayer to
> > take
> > focus so i can see what is going on.
> >
> > im using a PC keyboard sooo any fancy apple keys wont help me :)
> >
> > br
> > Lasse Knudsen
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
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>

willyboyd at gmail

Jan 3, 2008, 2:21 PM

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Re: mplayer and mythvideo on Mac OS Leopard [In reply to]

On Jan 3, 2008 2:46 PM, Lasse Knudsen <lasse.h.knudsen [at] gmail> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply,
>
> mplayer plays the vidoes without problems when i launch them directly from
> the desktop. mplayer -identify wont do anything :) as the mplayer
> application is not called mplayer but, "MPlayer OSX" :)
>
>

But inside the "MPlayer OSX" packages (right-click in Finder and
select "Show Package Contents" you will find the actual mplayer
executable. I assume that's how you figured out the weird path to put
in the MythVideo settings.

So, get into Terminal and cd to that path. Run mplayer directly
(./mplayer) with the -identify option, and that should work to get
that output.
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