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With all the talk of VLC for media playback...

I use mplayer almost daily for no-frills internet radio listening. I have my terminal window open all day anyway, so no need to waste resources (screen real-estate or otherwise) on iTunes or VLC.

For example, Groove Salad's AAC stream:

mplayer -playlist http://somafm.com/groovesalad130.pls

Seeing a focus on OSX improvements in mpv, I am hoping we'll see it installable via homebrew some day soon.

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It is installable via homebrew very easily: https://github.com/mpv-player/homebrew-mpv

The formula also builds `mpv.app`, I use that to open files directly from the Finder.

Great, thank you for the tip. It worked!

I ran in to a few speedbumps along the way, but it turns out I just needed the HEAD version of FFMPEG installed first.

Interesting, it should actually build with ffmpeg 1.2 correctly (as a matter of fact I have been using it until 2 days ago).

If you can reproduce it, I'd love a bug report.

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