Build Instructions for Mac OS X -Compile in quartz SDL support. You need to get the 1.2.5 sdl from fink -After running ./configure add this line to the end of config.mak ICONV_LIB = -L/sw/lib -liconv -In the Makefile, find the line that does COMMON_LIBS = ... And add $(ICONV_LIB) to the end of the list. This is assuming you have libiconv in your /sw/lib directory -Playing the stream. You need to tell Mplayer to use the sdl drivers such as # mplayer somefile.ty -vo sdl -ao sdl Note : These instructions and Mac OSX vstream patches are created by Deal Databases's GardenHose. I have no direct access to OS X. I'll buy OSX once they turn x86. :)