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English => Multiplatform => Mac OSX => Topic started by: daggabagga on May 28, 2005, 07:44:09 AM

Title: Preview- nothing happens
Post by: daggabagga on May 28, 2005, 07:44:09 AM

Hi!

I´m downloading som avi-files, and would like to check them out before I care to complete them. But when I right-click and choose preview- nothing happens. I have tryed to use mplayer, quicktime and realplayer. Nothing happens. None of the programs starts up.


what can I do?

Title: Re: Preview- nothing happens
Post by: deltaHF on May 28, 2005, 09:58:28 PM

use gxine i.e ?

cheers

Title: Re: Preview- nothing happens
Post by: stefanero on May 28, 2005, 10:17:17 PM

delta he is on mac...you have to add some option to the player -a or soemthing but I am not sure...
but you can set it up on prefs of amule

Title: Re: Preview- nothing happens
Post by: deltaHF on May 28, 2005, 10:49:35 PM

Quote

Originally posted by stefanero
delta he is on mac...

...and he is in wrong forum  :P ;)

cheers

Title: Re: Preview- nothing happens
Post by: ken on May 29, 2005, 07:51:16 AM

OK, there are a couple of issues here.

First, the mechanism that wxMac uses to launch the preview program doesn't work when the program has a space in its path or name.  Lame, I know.  :]  So, the trick is to use an app with no spaces in its path.  You can move or rename apps to achieve this.

There is an alternative, though.  Apple supplies, as part of OS X, the command-line program /usr/bin/open.  Its intended purpose is to provide a way to launch programs, URLs, and documents from the command line in Terminal.  It can be used to launch a program with spaces in its path and use it to open your .part files for preview.  Put something like:

/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/MplayerOSXB8r4/MPlayer OS X 2.app"

into the preference.  Notice the quotes around the application path -- they are necessary if there are spaces.

Even if you have an app with no spaces in its path, you may want to use the /usr/bin/open technique anyway.  The difference is that /usr/bin/open brings the app to the front when it launches it.  Otherwise, the app will launch behind aMule.

Lastly, the QuickTime Player isn't useful for previews.  It uses the file's type code or extension to determine what kind of file it is, rather than looking at the file's contents.  Because of that, it doesn't understand aMule's .part files.

I hope that helps.  :)

Title: Thanks a lot!
Post by: daggabagga on May 30, 2005, 08:09:37 PM

Thanks to all who answered my post!. And specially Ken. It helped alot. It works!!! :D

Sorry if I was in the wrong forum. I`ll TRY not to do that again!


Daggabagga

Title: Re: Preview- nothing happens
Post by: GonoszTopi on May 30, 2005, 08:11:34 PM

Quote

And specially Ken.

ken is our MacMule god  8)

Title: Re: Preview- nothing happens
Post by: thedude0001 on May 30, 2005, 11:13:25 PM

And for the next one with the same problem:
--> moved to mac forum

Title: Re: Preview- nothing happens
Post by: Gomaaz on May 31, 2005, 03:34:32 AM

ahhhh another useful hint

I tried to set my preview-application up with your string and used VLC instead. works fine

Thanks Ken  :baby: