Thanks for the reply,<br><br>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" :)
<br><br><br><br>-lasse<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 3, 2008 9:37 PM, <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Greetings,<br>><br>> I have been using a mythtv frontends for a while now, but on linux. What i<br>> want to do is to use mplayer to play the videos that i have. But my<br>> problem<br>
> is that<br><br></div>Your Mac video player might be having codec issues. Either it<br>doesn't have the right ones or it doesn't like how the files<br>are identifying themselves.<br><br>What does "mplayer -identify" give you?
<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>><br>> when i type in the somewhat silly path to the mplayer app, to match the<br>> type<br>> of file i want<br>><br>> /applications/mplayer.app/...... the only thing i get is the sound, i have
<br>> a<br>> feeling that the video is running in the background. Here is the big<br>> problem, i have no idea how to stop playback, i only have the sound and<br>> then<br>> the multicolored beachball that is rotating.
<br>><br>> Any one know how i can handle this problem, i would like for mplayer to<br>> take<br>> focus so i can see what is going on.<br>><br>> im using a PC keyboard sooo any fancy apple keys wont help me :)
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