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Tips and tricks

Unleash the full power of MPlayer, and customize to your hearts need, using these helpful tricks

Using the command line MPlayer
To use the command line version of mplayer without any hussle, we suggest you create a link to the binary file contained in the MPlayer OSX.app bundle. To do that, just type the following into your terminal:
ln -s "/Applications/MPlayer\ OSX\ Extended.app/Contents/Resources/Binaries/mpextended.mpBinaries/Contents/mpextended.mpBinaries/Contents/MacOS/mplayer" /usr/local/bin/mplayer
This will create a symlink to the mplayer command line binary, and place it into /usr/local/bin. (You can place it anywhere you like, but traditionally, user made binaries, that are not part of the distribution are placed in /usr/local/bin)

MPlayer configuration file
MPlayer OSX Extended uses an different configuration file than the one in "~/.mplayer/config" to avoid conflicts.

Place your config file in "~/Library/Application Support/MPlayer OSX Extended/MPlayer/" instead. See the MPlayer man page for details on the syntax and the available options.