Always prompted to install missing components on launch

[ddd]

Every time that I launch ffmpegX, it opens the component install dialog.

ffmpegX version: 0.0.9w (r5)
Mac OS X 10.4.6 / Dual G5 2 GHz (2003-06)
Boot Volume name: G5a

I've double-checked that I've downloaded the correct versions.
(even going so far as to download from both the links in the install dialog, and from the web site then `diff`ing the binaries!)

Is it okay to leave the binary named "mpeg2enc.intel" on my G5 Mac? Should I perhaps have renamed the extracted file as "mpeg2enc"?

I've also tried launching after deleting all traces that I could find of ffmpegX:

rm -rf /Applications/ffmpegX*  "/Library/Application Support"/ffmpegX*  ~/.mplayer*  ~/Library/Preferences/mplayer.plist

Looking at ffmpegX's application support dir from the command line, it looks a bit suspicious:
...some items are owned by root, an others by ddd (my user account that has admin privilges)

$ ls -al /Library/Application\ Support/ffmpegX 
total 69312
drwxrwxrwx   18 root  admin       612 Jul  3 22:46 .
drwxrwxr-x   25 root  admin       850 Jul  3 22:46 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 ddd   staff      6148 Jul 17  2004 .DS_Store
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ddd   admin    281028 May 15  2004 gocr
-rw-r--r--    1 ddd   admin       500 May 15  2004 gocrfilter_en.sed
-rw-r--r--    1 ddd   admin       361 May 15  2004 gocrfilter_fr.sed
-rw-r--r--    1 ddd   admin       271 May 15  2004 gocrfilter_nl.sed
-rw-r--r--    1 ddd   admin        67 May 15  2004 gocrfilter_none.sed
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin  16655780 Jul  3 22:46 mencoder
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ddd   staff    244832 May 15  2004 mp2enc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin    501480 Jul  3 22:46 mpeg2enc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin  15869784 Jul  3 22:46 mplayer
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ddd   admin     22596 May 15  2004 subtitle2pgm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ddd   staff    286168 Jul 17  2004 tcextract
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ddd   staff    589400 May 15  2004 vcdxbuild
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ddd   staff    568908 May 15  2004 vcdxgen
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ddd   staff    113352 May 15  2004 yuvdenoise
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ddd   staff    314968 May 15  2004 yuvscaler

...also suspicious, there are three distinct user+group combinations of file ownership in that directory: root+admin, ddd+staff, and ddd+admin.

Any help greatly appreciated,
./ddd

[ddd]

Sorry forgot to mention that after I complete the "component self-installer" the application works normally.

However, if I CANCEL the "component self-installer", the the application works normally then too!

./ddd

[Case]

On my side of the wire, ffmpegX doesn't ask for binaries repeatedly, and the permissions in my Application Support folder look very similar with respect to the three binaries:

$ ls -al /Library/Application\ Support/ffmpegX
total 69312
drwxrwxrwx   20 root  admin       680 May  2 00:48 .
drwxrwxr-x   22 root  admin       748 Jul  3 14:59 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 case  staff      6148 Jul  3 15:12 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x   42 case  admin      1428 Apr 30 04:02 db
-rwxr-xr-x    1 case  admin    281028 May 15  2004 gocr
-rw-r--r--    1 case  admin       500 May 15  2004 gocrfilter_en.sed
-rw-r--r--    1 case  admin       361 May 15  2004 gocrfilter_fr.sed
-rw-r--r--    1 case  admin       271 May 15  2004 gocrfilter_nl.sed
-rw-r--r--    1 case  admin        67 May 15  2004 gocrfilter_none.sed
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin  16655780 Apr 30 03:06 mencoder
-rwxr-xr-x    1 case  staff    244832 May 15  2004 mp2enc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin    501480 May  2 00:48 mpeg2enc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin  15869784 Apr 30 03:06 mplayer
drwxr-xr-x   50 case  admin      1700 Mar 10 00:23 reallib
-rwxr-xr-x    1 case  admin     22596 May 15  2004 subtitle2pgm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 case  staff    286168 Jul 18  2004 tcextract
-rwxr-xr-x    1 case  staff    589400 May 15  2004 vcdxbuild
-rwxr-xr-x    1 case  staff    568908 May 15  2004 vcdxgen
-rwxr-xr-x    1 case  staff    113352 May 15  2004 yuvdenoise
-rwxr-xr-x    1 case  staff    314968 May 15  2004 yuvscaler

Something must be different, though?!?

[ddd]

Case:
Yes I agree that our application support dir permissions are essentially identical, so I think we can rule that out as a potential cause.

Thanks,
./ddd

[ddd]

(Sorry about the accidental re-post of (most of) the original
- I've nuked it)

[ddd]

Despite the component self-installer warnings, if I compare the "application support" copy of each of the binaries to the latest downloaded ones, they are all the same:

$ cd ~/download/ffmpegX-0.9w-tools/
$ diff "/Library/Application Support"/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc mpeg2enc.intel 
$ diff "/Library/Application Support"/ffmpegX/mplayer mplayer 
$ diff "/Library/Application Support"/ffmpegX/mencoder mencoder

So for the meantime I'll just get used to hitting cancel on start-up ;-)

All the best,
./ddd

[Case]

With the content checked, it may be worth checking permissions on the ffmpegX folder itself:

ls -al /Library/Application\ Support
...
drwxrwxrwx   20 root  admin    680 May  2 00:48 ffmpegX
...

[ddd]

Yep, same group, owner & permissions (root, admin, 777).

(Though as an old school unix geek, I find it a little distirbing that the directory is world-writable, (especially considering that it houses executables))