I needed a recent mplayer for OS X; the current homebrew version has a memory leak when playing MPEG2 TS SD channels. This is how I compiled the svn HEAD trunk of mplayer for OSX 10.7 and the steps needed to get an app that you can deploy on other macs. I used a virgin OSX with only xCode installed running in VMWare Fusion to eliminate all sort of problems that could arise with already installed libs.

I cheated a little bit and didn’t install all deps by hand. So I installed homebrew and installed the SVN version of mplayer with:

Maybe I had some luck; but this worked beautifully and left me with the latest mplayer (1 March 2012). It also builded all the necessary deps. From here on there are 2 options; use the compiled homebrew version or build your own version with a fresh mplayer checkout. I like to have some control about the build proces so I downloaded the mplayer from SVN. With the previous steps it’s now very straight forward to get a working mplayer;

Then I used the instructions and scripts provided by Hermi from http://tracker.mplayerosx.ch/boards/1/topics/1444 to change the dylibs to work from inside the mplayer lib/ ---------------------------

install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libfribidi.0.dylib \@executable_path/lib/libfribidi.0.dylib mplayer install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libass.4.dylib \@executable_path/lib/libass.4.dylib mplayer install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libtheora.0.dylib \@executable_path/lib/libtheora.0.dylib mplayer install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libogg.0.dylib \@executable_path/lib/libogg.0.dylib mplayer install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libbs2b.0.0.0.dylib \@executable_path/lib/libbs2b.0.0.0.dylib mplayer install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib \@executable_path/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib mplayer install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libfaac.0.0.0.dylib \@executable_path/lib/libfaac.0.0.0.dylib mplayer

#LIBS sudo install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libfribidi.0.dylib \@executable_path/lib/libfribidi.0.dylib libass.4.dylib sudo install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libogg.0.dylib \@executable_path/lib/libogg.0.dylib libtheora.0.dylib