Support the latest Real Player formats in MPlayer (CLI)
Oct 08, '04 10:06:00AM
Contributed by: bluehz
I use MPlayer in the Terminal quite often to record Real-formatted streams. But many of the newer formats of Real Player are not yet supported in MPlayer. So here's a simple method to add the latest Real Player support to your MPlayer (CLI).
- Download MPlayer (CLI version). Download the file "Last Mencoder and MPlayer Binary," and install.
- Download the free Real Player for OS X. Click on the "Free Real Player" link in the upper right hand corner. Install Real Player.
- Locate the Real Player application and right-click and select "Show Package Contents." Navigate to RealPlayer.app -> Contents -> Frameworks -> HXClientKit.framework -> HelixPlugins -> Codecs, and move all the codecs in that directory to /usr -> local -> lib -> mplayer. You may have to create that directory first.
You should now have full support for the latest Real Player formats in MPlayer. If you want to add even more formats, go here.
Do not download the DR5 as it is old, instead download the first DATED release -- for example 08/09/04 -- and grab the file listed next to macos-gcc3-pb under the All_clients column. After downloading, discard everything that is not a ".bundle" file, then move all the bundles into /usr -> local -> lib -> mplayer. Make sure not to replace the files you just copied from above.
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