It’s my fault. I admit it. Upon hearing of a primary author of the MacOS X port of VLC “dropping out” for a spell; I wanted to make sure that I’d be able to continue to play my files!

I thus opted to attempt to update MPlayer. MPlayer OSX is horribly out of date, and rather slow. Horribly so. I decided to utilize the newer 1.0pre3 software, and after a few bugs and excessive work to compile everything statically, I pass the savings on to you with a speedy recent incarnation!

GET THE HOLY WATER!

That’s not specifically my BioStar M7MIA; but that’s only because I’m a rather forgiving person. This motherboard has the old buggy VIA 686b chip; which renders both PCI and USB entirely unusable. I’m finally getting rid of it; I’ve got a nice ABIT NF7 coming to replace it; I can still use my old kit with it, and eventually upgrade my 5 year old surplus and have a halfway decent machine – I hope!

Whist looking for utilities to manipulate the evasive Matroska format; I stumbled upon Mortiz Bunkus’ MKVToolNix tools.

I was suprised to see that no one had yet made a MacOS X port; and after a bit of a discussion with Mortiz; I guess I’m the official MacOS X port guy. Neat, huh?

You can snag it from my software page.

I’m on a roll this morning; my Bozotic Port has been updated to the 18.02.2004 code base. It now supports SSL, redirection, and still touts CGI, virtual hosts, and the like.

A precompiled binary is available within the source package, as well as a poll() emulation header for compatibility with MacOS 10.2.x.

I know it’s been forever (nearly two years) since I’ve worked on any original compisitions, but I’ve decided to dust off my rusty old fingers and do a simple little remix to see if I could remember.

I present to you, “Dope”, my mini-remix of Jugi’s song for Complex’s 1995 award winning demo music. I’ve killed the horribly long intro and made it a “looper”; it’ll bounce back unto itself ad-nauseum (at least in the native MOD format).

Both an MP3 and a ScreamTracker module are available for download.