I stumbled across this amusing video of a cat drinking by dunking its head under a flowing tap. Even this light-hearted fun had some people in the comments bemoaning the wasted water of a tap being on for a few minutes of recorded video.
Then, with the subject of wasted water fresh in my mind, I switched tabs to this story (also from Reddit), and almost snorted my tea.
It was funny at the time.
Wednesday 9 September 2009
Monday 7 September 2009
Building MPlayer from SVN on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I use the command line
But today I upgraded to Snow Leopard, distinctive from it's predecessor in being a truly native 64-bit operating system. And my SVN checkout of MPlayer stopped working, giving me a green video window and needing some effort to kill. So, to get MPlayer working, you're going to need the following:
...and, of course, your MPlayer sources. If you want FAAC support, get libfaac and build/install it using the same procedure as for
Now, you should have a native 64-bit
Success!
mplayer
on Mac OS. The only competition for this superb video player is VLC, but sometimes I like to just quickly launch something without a bulky UI getting in the way.But today I upgraded to Snow Leopard, distinctive from it's predecessor in being a truly native 64-bit operating system. And my SVN checkout of MPlayer stopped working, giving me a green video window and needing some effort to kill. So, to get MPlayer working, you're going to need the following:
...and, of course, your MPlayer sources. If you want FAAC support, get libfaac and build/install it using the same procedure as for
freetype
below.- Install the Apple Developer Tools using the graphical installer.
- Build
libpng
andlibjpeg
: ./configure --arch=x86_64
make
sudo make install
- Build
freetype
: ./configure --target=x86_64-Darwin
make
sudo make install
- Build
mplayer
: ./configure --target=x86_64-Darwin --enable-menu
make
sudo make install
Now, you should have a native 64-bit
/usr/local/bin/mplayer
:
danny@mirror ~ [1] % file /usr/local/bin/mplayer
/usr/local/bin/mplayer: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
danny@mirror ~ [2] %
Success!
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