Manually Installing MPlayer in Arachne

Create the directory structure

For the purposes of these instructions, it is assumed that Arachne is installed into c:\arachne. Adjust these directions to match where Arachne is really installed, if different.

Create the following directories:

c:\arachne\mplayer
c:\arachne\mplayer\codecs
c:\arachne\mplayer\docs
c:\arachne\mplayer\docs\htm

Install the Files

Into c:\arachne place: MPLAY.BAT
Alternatively, you may place MPLAY.BAT somewhere in your path.
Edit MPLAY.BAT if necessary, to reflect your actual Arachne drive:\path.
Into c:\arachne\mplayer place: MPLAYER.EXE
Into c:\arachne\mplayer place: SUBFONT.TTF
Into c:\arachne\mplayer place: CONFIG
Into c:\arachne\mplayer\codecs place: DRVC.DLL
Into c:\arachne\mplayer\docs place: the contents of DOCS.ZIP
Into c:\arachne\mplayer\docs\htm place: the contents of HTM.ZIP
Into c:\arachne\oops place: MP_RM.TXT as MP_RM.OOK

Edit MIME.CFG

Add the following lines to the end of MIME.CFG:


file/.wmv              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.rm               |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.ram              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.ra               |call mplay.bat $1
file/.viv              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.flv              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.m4v              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.mp4              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.wma              |call mplay.bat $1
video/x-ms-asf         |@cd mplayer \n mplayer.exe -dumpstream -dumpfile asxfile -playlist $1 \n call mplay.bat asxfile \n cd ..
application/vnd.ms-asf |@cd mplayer \n mplayer.exe -dumpstream -dumpfile asxfile -playlist $1 \n call mplay.bat asxfile \n cd ..
audio/x-pn-realaudio   |@cd mplayer \n mplayer.exe -dumpstream -dumpfile realaud.ra -playlist $1 \n call mplay.bat realaud.ra \n cd ..

You will note that the lines above do NOT include any video/audio files that may already be covered by installation of QuickView.

At your own discretion, you may add the following lines if QuickView is not installed:


file/.avi              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.mov              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.qt               |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.mpg              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.mpe              |@call mplay.bat $1
file/.mp3              |call mplay.bat $1
file/.ogg              |call mplay.bat $1

And if QuickView IS installed, and you want to use MPlayer instead, remember to comment out the corresponding lines in MIME.CFG that call QV.

Last updated 4th March 2008