ffmpegX to convert rmvb

[Ninacita]

Hi!

I just installed ffmpegX because I need a way to convert my rmvb files. When I try to convert a progress window comes up and shows me it's finished after a few seconds. But the converted file is not saved anywhere.
I'd be really happy about any advice on what I'm doing wrong here!

ffmpegX 0.0.9y on Mac OSX Intel

Thanx, Ninacita

[Case]

On the right side of the progress window, there should be a blue "i" symbol. Clicking that will open a Progress Information window, with the log of what ffmpegX was doing. Please post that output here.

[Ninacita]

FIXME:Hardenabling SSE and SSE2 without detection
Sat Oct 25 11:31:23 CEST 2008
MEncoder dev-CVS-060307-04:23-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xb151920
REAL file format detected.
/bin/sh: line 1: 3758 Bus error '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder' /Users/nina/Movies/M2_1/Monk\ -\ 201\ -\ Mr\ Monk\ goes\ Back\ To\ School.rmvb -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128:vol=0 -srate 48000 -aid 0 -ovc lavc -sws 0 -lavcopts threads=2:vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=940:keyint=240:vqm in=2:vqmax=15 -ofps 23.976 -vop scale=640:272 -noodml -ffourcc DIVX -o /Users/nina/Movies/M2_1/Monk\ -\ 201\ -\ Mr\ Monk\ goes\ Back\ To\ School.rmvb.ff.avi

[Case]

/bin/sh: line 1: 3758 Bus error

Did you install the corresponding (Intel or PPC) reallib for ffmpegX? Unfortunately, it seems that the PPC version of reallib doesn't function on Intel.

On a second, unrelated note: some users have reported that they had more success with converting after renaming .rmvb to .rm.

[Ninacita]

I don't think I installed that. I installed mpeg2enc, mencoder and mplayer, no more. what is reallib? Where can I find it?

[Case]

reallib is a library of decoding tools that extend mplayer's standard decoding capabilities to include reading RealMedia files.
The PPC version is a ready-to-copy folder, downloadable in a .zip archive.
The Intel version is an installer package (for a different version of MPlayer), which has to be installed, moved and the folder renamed to 'reallib'. See post 1834504 for instructions.

[Ninacita]

thanx a lot for your help! I'll try this

[takeTwo]

/bin/sh: line 1: 3758 Bus error

Did you install the corresponding (Intel or PPC) reallib for ffmpegX? Unfortunately, it seems that the PPC version of reallib doesn't function on Intel.

On a second, unrelated note: some users have reported that they had more success with converting after renaming .rmvb to .rm.

Hey, Case. I was having errors converting Real media and I assumed it was because I recently installed RP v.11. So I trashed it, got RP v.9 back, and still had the following error.

REAL file format detected.
Stream description: Video Stream
Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo
Stream description: Audio Stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
Stream mimetype: logical-fileinfo
sh: line 1: 21160 Bus error [note, the exact number of this Bus error varied; 21236, 21443, 21331, 21420, 21641...]

After seeing your "second, unrelated note", I tried that and it worked!
Renaming .rmvb to .rm apparently is similar to renaming the entire path to the .rm file to exclude weird characters--another reason that ffmpegX fails.

On a second, unrelated note, I've noticed that Microsoft office also uses a four-character suffix for .ppt files. Are these related?