Sunday, April 20, 2008

Play rmvb format using MPlayer

MPlayer is my favorite media player on Mac OS X. I really don't understand the great disparity in terms of user numbers between VLC and MPlayer, as shown on osx.iusethis.com. In my experience, MPlayer plays more formats than VLC does and has better subtitle support. I don't mean to diminish VLC but I think at least these two players should be similar in every aspect.

In any case, both MPlayer and VLC are way better than the bloated RealOne player. However, sometimes I need play rmvb file but it is not supported by MPlayer out of box. In this case, first download RealOne, then copy all the bundles in
RealPlayer.app/Contents/Frameworks/HXClientKit.framework/HelixPlugins/Codecs
to
/usr/local/lib/codecs
If you don't have the second folder then create it first.

Oh, don't forget to delete RealOne afterwards.

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