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More information on how to compile MPlayer on OSX with extra features

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<appendix id="mailinglists">
<title>Mailing lists</title>
<para>
There are some public mailing lists on <application>MPlayer</application>. Unless
explicitly stated otherwise the language of these lists is <emphasis role="bold">English</emphasis>.
Please do not send messages in other languages or HTML mail! If you send an
overly big attachment and your mail gets rejected, put the attachment up for
download somewhere instead. Click the links to subscribe. On the mailing lists,
the Netiquette rules about writing and quoting apply just as on usenet. Please
follow them, it makes the life of those who read your mails a lot easier.
If you do not know them please read
<ulink url="http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/edit.html">HOWTO Edit Messages</ulink>.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce"><application>MPlayer</application>-announce</ulink>
</para>
<para>
List for <application>MPlayer</application> announcements.
Subscribe here if you want to get security and release announcements.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users"><application>MPlayer</application>-users</ulink>
</para>
<para>General support mailing list for questions related to
<application>MPlayer</application>.
Please read the <emphasis role="bold">whole documentation</emphasis> before
posting your problems and feature requests here.
<application>MPlayer</application> bug reports belong on this
list as well, but read the <link linkend="bugs">known bugs</link> and
<link linkend="bugreports">bug reporting</link> section first.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok"><application>MPlayer</application>-felhasznalok</ulink> (Hungarian)
</para>
<para>Hungarian language list. Topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and
RTFM questions up to now :(
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox"><application>MPlayer</application>-Matrox</ulink>
</para>
<para>List for questions related to Matrox graphics cards, like
<link linkend="mga_vid">mga_vid</link>, Matrox's official beta drivers (for
XFree86 4.x.x), matroxfb-TVout stuff.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb"><application>MPlayer</application>-dvb</ulink>
</para>
<para>Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (not <emphasis role="bold">DXR3</emphasis>!).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mencoder-users"><application>MEncoder</application>-users</ulink>
</para>
<para>General support mailing list for questions related to
<application>MEncoder</application>.
Please read the <emphasis role="bold">whole documentation</emphasis> before
posting your problems and feature requests here.
<application>MEncoder</application> bug reports belong on this
list as well, but read the <link linkend="bugs">known bugs</link> and
<link linkend="bugreports">bug reporting</link> section first.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng"><application>MPlayer</application>-dev-eng</ulink>
</para>
<para>This list is about <application>MPlayer</application> development!
Talking about interface/API changes, new libraries, code optimization,
configure changes is ontopic here. Send patches but not bug reports,
user questions, feature requests or flames here to keep the list traffic low.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog"><application>MPlayer</application>-cvslog</ulink>
</para>
<para>All changes in <application>MPlayer</application> code are automatically
sent to this list. Only questions about these changes belong here
(if you do not understand why a change is required or you have a better
fix or you have noticed a possible bug/problem in the commit).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-docs"><application>MPlayer</application>-DOCS</ulink>
</para>
<para>This list is about <application>MPlayer</application> documentation
and homepage discussions.
Documentation and homepage related SVN logs are also sent here.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-translations"><application>MPlayer</application>-translations</ulink>
</para>
<para>This list is about <application>MPlayer</application> documentation
and homepage translation discussions.
Documentation and homepage translation Subversion logs are also sent here.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin"><application>MPlayer</application>-cygwin</ulink>
</para>
<para>List for discussion about <application>MPlayer</application>'s
<application>Cygwin</application> and <application>MinGW</application> port.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-g2-dev"><application>MPlayer</application>-G2-dev</ulink>
</para>
<para>List for discussion about <application>MPlayer</application> G2, the
next generation video player.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mirror"><application>MPlayer</application>-mirror</ulink>
</para>
<para>List for discussion about <application>MPlayer</application> mirror
server infrastructure.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mwn"><application>MPlayer</application>-MWN</ulink> (INACTIVE)
</para>
<para>List for discussion about the <application>MPlayer</application> Weekly
News releases.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-os2"><application>MPlayer</application>-os2</ulink> (INACTIVE)
</para>
<para>List for discussion about <application>MPlayer</application>'s OS/2 port.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/qt-codecs-porting">qt-codecs-porting</ulink> (INACTIVE)
</para>
<para>List for discussion about QuickTime codec support.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<note><para>
You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at
<ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/s-arch.cgi"/>.
</para></note>
</para>
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