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Tips and tricks

Unleash the full power of MPlayer, and customize to your hearts need, using these helpful tricks

Using the command line MPlayer
To use the command line version of mplayer without any hussle, we suggest you create a link to the binary file contained in the MPlayer OSX.app bundle. To do that, just type the following into your terminal:
ln -s /Applications/MPlayer OSX.app/Contents/Resources/External_Binaries/mplayer.app/Contents/MacOS/mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer
This will create a symlink to the mplayer command line binary, and place it into /usr/local/bin. (You can place it anywhere you like, but traditionally, user made binaries, that are not part of the distribution are placed in /usr/local/bin)

MPlayer configuration file
Mplayer will by default look for a configuration file when launched. The recommended place to store your configuration file is in ~/.mplayer/config (if your user name is "mike", than this would be /Users/mike/.mplayer/config). If you want to customize MPlayer, and make sure, that the settings stay, you need to define them in the configuration file. The syntax is config_option = value.

Improve subtitle visibility
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