[atomised]

hi all

i'm attempting to install mpeg2enc, mencoder, mplayer onto ffmpegX.

the how to window does make this seem easy but obviously not for me!

i downloaded the 3 files (which look like little exec files), the process them says locate them on the desktop and press install.

when i do this a window pops up telling me installation was not successful due to there being 'No such file or directory'. but they are sitting there!

the window begins with ##cp:/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX which confuses me as they are located on the desktop and that is where i'm selecting them. i attempted to create this file and plonked mpeg2enc in it but i had a very similar result.

what is it i'm doing wrong?

i'm running a g5 imac, 10.4.2 ffmpegX v0.0.9s

thanks in advance for assisting my stupidity...

[hotani]

That is the most fracked up and broken yet useful application I've ever seen.

I have installed all those binaries twice, and it took them, but on the next launch they are gone again so I just gave up. It is interesting that two of them have the exact same url.

Plus, the status window is a different application that opens only when encoding something, will not resize without randomly hiding/breaking current status bars in progress.

However, as irritating as this application can be, it seems to be the only option out there for converting. I was disappointed that it did not recognize .ogm files, but other than that it has converted everything I've thrown at it.

[TETENAL]

Use Handbrake.

[osxrules]

You just have to put the files where they need to be manually - the install mechanism is pretty dumb and the developers should just tell people to do it manually. Just drop the 3 files into /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX. If the folder isn't there, make it. ffmpegX should work fine from there.

I'm not sure why they don't just include the 3 binaries in the ffmpegX app. Maybe it's a licensing thing.

[badidea]

Originally Posted by osxrules

I'm not sure why they don't just include the 3 binaries in the ffmpegX app. Maybe it's a licensing thing.

You hit the nail on the head!

[atomised]

mmm, i had tried the manual option.

what did work was downloading the most recent version, i think my old one was a version or two old.

the main reason i was hoping to use this was for subtitles in some obscure japanese 60's movies...which has so far not worked.

it does tend to keep on asking me to reinstall one of the binaries every time i re-open it which is quirky...

and it keeps on resizing to a 4:3 ration from the widescreen of the actual file despite my choosing other options.

i have enjoyed handbrake prior to this (and for all i know it can join subtitles...) and its a bit more user friendly for my little brain.

[osxrules]

My ffmpegX folder has 19 items in it + a folder with 46 other files for realplayer support.

The ones you need to get rid of the warning are gocr, mencoder, mp2enc, mpeg2enc, mplayer, mplex, subtitle2pgm, tcextract, vcdxbuild, vcdxgen, yuvdenoise and yuvscaler. Oddly, these are in the ffmpegX binary itself but some are compressed. Just do show package contents and look in the resources folder. Copy the ones I mentioned to /Library/Applications Support/ffmpegX and the warning should disappear.

I've had the same trouble with the aspect ratio thing. It is very annoying. I don't know how to fix it. What I sometimes end up doing is setting the aspect ratio to 1:1 and setting the resolution manually but that's not really the right thing to do.