Installing MPlayer on OS X

Software name : MPlayer
Homepage : http://www.mplayerhq.hu
Software version used for this installation : 1.0pre8
Operating System use for this installation : OS X (10.3)
Recommended Hardware : G3 minimum

Downloading MPlayer

The latest stable version of MPlayer for OS X can be downloaded from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html.  The latest version at the time of writing this document is MPlayer OS X 1.0pre8.

 
 

To download MPlayer for OS X simply click on one of the two letter links in one of the columns next to MPlayer OS X 1.0pre8. It shouldn't make much difference which link you click, I used 'CH' in the HTTP? column and it was very fast to download.

Depending on your web browser and its settings you may see the following window at the start of the download:

Simply select "Save to Disk" and then click "OK" to proceed with the download.

Once the download is complete you should see something like this on your desktop or in the folder that your web browser is set to download into:

Double click on it to begin installing the software.

You should now see a "finder window" with a disk image? named "MPlayer" (the name of the disk image may be different if you are installing a different version than shown here) open:

 

To begin installing MPlayer simply double click on the file named "install_mplayerosx.pkg".

You should now see an MPlayer OSX Installer window like this:

Click Continue to proceed with the installation. You should now see this window containing the Software License Agreement? for MPlayer:

Read the License Agreement the click Continue. You should now see the following window:

To continue with the installation click Agree. You should then see the following window:

At this stage of the installation you are required to select a destination into which MPlayer will be installed. In most cases the only option available will be Macintosh HD so just click on the Macintosh HD icon to select it. The window should then look like this:

This window shows both the amount of free space on the destination disk and the amount of space required by MPlayer. Check that you have sufficient space then click Continue to proceed or Go Back to cancel the installation if you need to clear some disk space before continuing.

Next you should see this window:

Simply click Install to continue. After a few seconds you should see the following window:

The installation is complete so click Close to close the Installer.

There should now be an MPlayer icon in your "Applications" folder that looks like this:

 

Once you have confirmed that MPlayer is in your "Applications" folder you can eject the disk image? (by clicking the eject icon or dragging it to the trash) and start using MPlayer.

To open MPlayer double click on the MPlayer icon your "Applications" folder:

 

You should be able to see the VLC interface which looks like this:

 
 

That's it! You now have MPlayer up and running.