Installed Mac OSX updates, and PS3 (IPOD) encoding stops working

[limeyx]

Short summary.

I use Mac OSX 10.4.9, Final Cut Express 3.5.1. ffmpegx v0.0.9x r2 Sep 28, 2006
I export a Quicktime reference movie from FCE which is apple intermediate codec, 1440x1080
Then i load up a preset file based on an IPOD H.264 encoding to 1920x1080 (for PS3)

All was working well until very recently when I applied a bunch of Mac OSX "updates"

Now, when I try the encode, it fails with this:

Encoding started on Tue Jun 12 16:44:52 PDT 2007
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
built on Apr 15 2006 08:41:02, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
x264 [warning]: width or height not divisible by 16 (1920x1080), compression will suffer.
x264 [info]: using SAR=1000/1001
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities Altivec
mp4 [info]: initial delay 0 (scale 30000)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Volumes/500GInternal/nicka-dive-movies/output/farnsworth-june-10-2007-ref':
Duration: 00:04:45.9, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1542 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng), 29.97 fps(r): Video: Apple Intermediate Codec, 1440x1080
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: pcm_s16be, 48000 Hz, stereo, 1536 kb/s
Output #0, yuv4mpegpipe, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0, 29.97 fps(c): Video: rawvideo, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Unsupported codec (id=0) for input stream #0.0
x264 [info]: final ratefactor: 59.77
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
built on Apr 15 2006 08:41:02, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
x264 [warning]: width or height not divisible by 16 (1920x1080), compression will suffer.
x264 [info]: using SAR=1000/1001
x264 [error]: empty stats file
x264_encoder_open failed
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Volumes/500GInternal/nicka-dive-movies/output/farnsworth-june-10-2007-ref':
Duration: 00:04:45.9, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1542 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng), 29.97 fps(r): Video: Apple Intermediate Codec, 1440x1080
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: pcm_s16be, 48000 Hz, stereo, 1536 kb/s
Output #0, yuv4mpegpipe, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0, 29.97 fps(c): Video: rawvideo, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Unsupported codec (id=0) for input stream #0.0


If I enable the "Decode with Quicktime" option, it seems that it works fine (but it will take 6+ hours to complete so I wont know until then)

This used to work on the exact same files.

does anyone have any ideas? I tried looking for any x264 or ffmpegx files that might be corrupt/missing but nothing obvious.

One thing: ffmpegx never seems to "remember" my mplayer binaries are installed. Keeps asking me on startup every single time. (I am not an admin user but do give it an admin login/password to do the install)

thanks!

Nick

[limeyx]

Oh, one more thing -- maybe a bug?

The "decode with Quicktime" flag seems not to get preserved when I load my presets file.