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18.11.2006 17:55:02

is MplayerOSX plugin broken?

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in version 1.0 pr10b, RemoteBuddy don't list MplayerOSX in 'Mapping' Preference Pane.

When trying to open the Plugin (from Contents/Plugins/) RB says 'Behaviour may be outdated or not new'. Choosing 'Install' doesn't solve the problem.

These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:

Hardware - Apple® Remote

After uninstalling/quitting Remote Buddy, my Mac® no longer reacts to the Apple® Remote. (FAQ015E0241)
To enable you to use all capabilities of the IR Receiver of your Mac®, Remote Buddy is using its own driver. In contrast, all other applications with integrated Apple® Remote support usually use the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

As long as you're running Remote Buddy, Remote Buddy and its driver are responsible for turning the received button presses into actions. As soon as you quit Remote Buddy, this task is again handled by the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

If other applications don't use the interface to the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem correctly, this can lead to the effect that nothing happens when you press a button on your Apple® Remote. For as long as you're running Remote Buddy, issues like this are covered by Remote Buddy and it's driver and are therefore not visible to you. However, as soon as you quit Remote Buddy, the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem is back in control and any issues caused in it by other applications become visible.

Therefore Remote Buddy is neither the cause of the issue nor is it responsible for it. Instead, the cause of the issue exists independently of Remote Buddy. It's located elsewhere and can also only be solved there.

Although our products can't cause any such issues, we're regularly contacted about such issues and asked for help. In order to make locating and fixing the cause of such issues as easy and efficient as possible, we've developed a free diagnostics tool: Remote Control Diagnostics. It can locate issues with a single click and will provide you with information about the issue as well as with instructions on how you can fix it.

User

18.11.2006 18:57:02

Re: is MplayerOSX plugin broken?

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Hello Flavio,

thanks for asking.

The Mplayer Behaviour is not broken. In fact, it didn't change at all
in Preview 10b. And since Remote Buddy is already using the version
you tried to install from inside Remote Buddy's bundle (which, btw,
you shouldn't do), it also acted correctly by bringing up the dialogue.

If the Mplayer Behaviour does not turn up in Remote Buddy's
Preferences, Mplayer was not found through Launch Services (a system
level service by OS X).

You can use LSRefresh from here:

http://www.iospirit.com/index.php?
mode=view&obj_type=blog&obj_id=2&o_blog_dmode=view&o_blog_entry=79

to refresh / add an entry for Mplayer in your LS database. Just fire
up LSRefresh, select "MplayerOSX.app" in the dialogue, let LSRefresh
update your Launch Services database and restart Remote Buddy
afterwards and the problem should be gone.

You can also try to use OnyX to entirely rebuild your Launch Services
database. However, I never did the latter, so no guarantee for that
way from my side.

Hope that helps.

Best regards,
Felix

User

18.11.2006 20:35:43

Re: is MplayerOSX plugin broken?

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I tried to update Launch Service database with LSRefresh, and with Onyx also. MplayerOSX still isn't on the Mapping list.

I dumped the LS Database and Mplayer appears there.
(you can get the dump at http://static.curella.org/files/lsdump.txt )

any other ideas?

Last edited: 18.11.2006 20:36:04

User

18.11.2006 21:24:02

Re: Re: is MplayerOSX plugin broken?

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Hello Flavio,

thanks for the lsdump file!

The version of MplayerOSX you currently have installed is outdated
and has a bundle identifier value of "org.mplayerosx.MplayerOSX",
whereas the latest version of MplayerOSX - and also the version that
Remote Buddy looks for - has "hu.mplayerhq.mplayerosx" stored as the
bundle identifier.

Downloading and installing the latest version of MplayerOSX will
solve the problem you are encountering.

Best regards,
Felix

User

18.11.2006 22:54:57

Re: is MplayerOSX plugin broken?

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now it works fine.

Thank you very much!! :)

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