Video
You can install any of several X11-based open source applications for viewing various formats of video by using the Fink package manager (see Chapter 11). These applications will run under Apple’s X11 environment. Also, some open source video applications have been ported to Mac OS X using Aqua, rather than relying on X11.
Open Source Video Players
MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu), a popular audio/video player among Linux/Unix users, can be run under Mac OS X. In addition to being among many packages that are being ported to Mac OS X by the Fink Project, a Mac OS X binary distribution of MPlayer, MPlayerOSX, is available at http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/ and sports an Aqua GUI.
After you’ve downloaded and mounted the disk image, drag the MPlayer OS X application to your /Applications folder, and then unmount and trash the disk image if you don’t plan to install it anywhere else.
To play videos with MPlayer OS X (shown in Figure 6-3), you can drag and drop a video file on the MPlayer OS X icon in the Finder, or select a video from the MPlayer OS X menu bar by using File → Open.
Figure 6-3. MPlayer OS X
Another popular open source, cross-platform multimedia player, VLC (shown in Figure 6-4), has been ported to Mac OS X and sports an Aqua-native GUI. VLC, distributed by the VideoLAN project (http://www.videolan.org/), supports a wide variety of video and audio formats. ...
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