installing binaries

[zoranb]

when trying to install ffmpegx's plugins/binaries a macosx login password is required despite i enter it it dont work

i have user account in my Mac, do i have to be administrator to do this?

[major]

Yes, you need to install from an administrator OSX account. You may create one from the System Preferences > Users.

[DannoXYZ]

I've got the admin password entered and everything installed OK. I've confirmed that it copied the binaries to /Library/Application Suppor/ffmpegX. Yet every single time I start up ffmpegX, it presents the binary-image install pop-up saying that they haven't been installed. I hit CANCEL and continue one and every works fine...

[major]

Which binaries are marked in red in the installer window?

[DannoXYZ]

It looks like all of them. Here's a screen-shot of the ffmpegX when it first comes up (the "directory access" is just my dock icon):



Then I hit CANCEL and everything works ok. I've confirmed the following in /volumes/OSXboost/library/Application Support/ffmpegX:

mpeg2enc = 1,196,360 bytes
mencoder = 6,636,100 bytes, dev-CVS-050123-19:55-3.3
mplayer = 6,583,340 bytes, dev-CVS-050123-19:55-3.3

I've followed the step-by-step instructions from here: http://homepage.mac.com/major4/download.html
and even got the RealMedia stuff to work, even though it only works on earlier version of RM files.

Two things perhaps that may be related:

1. /volumes/OSXboost/library/Application Support/ffmpegX is not in my path

2. I've moved ffmpegX after install to another disk /volumes/VideoProduction/ffmpegX, don't know if that's relevant, does the program look for these binaries with a hard-coded path from the same volume where it's launched?

My next troubleshooting step would be to make a symbolic link from those binaries into the resources folder within ffmpegX.app, would that help?

BTW - this is a great package! Keep up the good work!

[Case]

Try moving your ffmpegX folder to your Applications folder.

BTW, my mpeg2enc = 188,524 bytes

[DannoXYZ]

Ok, I wiped out ffmpegX folder in ApplicationSupport and moved ffmpegX executable to my Applications folder. On the first run, it presented the same "install binaries" screen and I pointed it to all the right locations, including the smaller mpeg2enc that you have. Here's the log-file of the install:

Jul  9 12:34:16 localhost sudo:    Danno : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/whoami

Jul  9 12:34:17 localhost sudo:    Danno : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/sh -c sudo cp '/Volumes/MacintoshHD/MACsoftware4/VIDEO-ENCODING/ffmpegX-0.0.9s ExtraLibs/ffmpegXbinaries230105/mpeg2enc' '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc' && sudo chmod 755 '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc' && sudo cp '/Volumes/MacintoshHD/MACsoftware4/VIDEO-ENCODING/ffmpegX-0.0.9s ExtraLibs/ffmpegXbinaries230105/mencoder' '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder' &&  sudo chmod 755 '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder' && sudo cp '/Volumes/MacintoshHD/MACsoftware4/VIDEO-ENCODING/ffmpegX-0.0.9s ExtraLibs/ffmpegXbinaries230105/mplayer' '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mplayer' && sudo chmod 755 '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mplayer' && cd ~ && sudo /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf '/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/mux.tgz' && cd '/Library/Application Support/' && sudo

Jul  9 12:34:17 localhost sudo:    Danno : (command continued)  /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf '/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gocr.tgz' && cd /usr/local/share && sudo /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf '/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/mplayerfonts.tgz' && cd '/Library/Application Support/' && sudo /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf '/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/yuvtools.tgz' && printf "Installation successful"

Jul  9 12:34:17 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/cp /Volumes/MacintoshHD/MACsoftware4/VIDEO-ENCODING/ffmpegX-0.0.9s ExtraLibs/ffmpegXbinaries230105/mpeg2enc /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc

Jul  9 12:34:17 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/chmod 755 /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc

Jul  9 12:34:17 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/cp /Volumes/MacintoshHD/MACsoftware4/VIDEO-ENCODING/ffmpegX-0.0.9s ExtraLibs/ffmpegXbinaries230105/mencoder /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder

Jul  9 12:34:18 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/chmod 755 /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder

Jul  9 12:34:18 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/cp /Volumes/MacintoshHD/MACsoftware4/VIDEO-ENCODING/ffmpegX-0.0.9s ExtraLibs/ffmpegXbinaries230105/mplayer /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mplayer

Jul  9 12:34:20 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/chmod 755 /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mplayer

Jul  9 12:34:20 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/Users/Danno ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/mux.tgz

Jul  9 12:34:25 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/Library/Application Support ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gocr.tgz

Jul  9 12:34:25 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/usr/local/share ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/mplayerfonts.tgz

Jul  9 12:34:26 localhost sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/Library/Application Support ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/yuvtools.tgz

Looks like everything went OK. Confirmed a new ffmpegX folder was made in ApplicationSupport and all the binaries have the proper permissions. So I quit ffmpegX and restarted and still get the same pop-up asking to install binaries. Strange thing is I can hit CANCEL and everything works OK, so obviously the install went fine. Must be something in the checking routing...

[major]

The binaries must be installed in the OSX boot volume.

[DannoXYZ]

I think they are, the source location where they're being copied from is on an archived volume, but they're being copied to the boot-volume.

source: /Volumes/MacintoshHD/MACsoftware4/VIDEO-ENCODING/ffmpegX-0.0.9s/ExtraLibs/ffmpegXbinaries230105/mpeg2enc

destination (boot): /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc

from this log entry:
>Jul 9 12:34:17 localhost sudo: Danno : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/sh -c sudo cp '/Volumes/MacintoshHD/MACsoftware4/VIDEO-ENCODING/ffmpegX-0.0.9s/ExtraLibs/ffmpegXbinaries230105/mpeg2enc' '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc'

Isn't that correct? I've even deleted everything from /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX before and manually copied the files and set permissions and still the same result.

Or do you mean that the installer and binaries have to be located on the boot-volume when they're run and the binaries are copied from one folder to another on the same volume? I've done a search for mpeg2enc and there's only two of them, one on the archived volume with the installer and the installed copy in /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX. Is there an ouput log for ffmpegX or something that can trace where it's looking for these binaries?

Here's a snapshot of that folder:

[major]

It seems correct. The binaries are expected to be in /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX and not moved anywhere.

[DannoXYZ]

Ok, I tried installing and running everything from the boot-volume only. I copied the entire mounted ffmpegX.dmg folder onto my boot-volume. Also copied the binaries into the same folder as well:



Then I ran ffmpegX for the 1st time on this installation and pointed the installer to the correct binaries and it copied them over to /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX.

Here's the log-entry for the installer

Jul  9 15:58:07 localhost sudo:    Danno : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/sh -c sudo cp '/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc' '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc' && sudo chmod 755 '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mpeg2enc' && sudo cp '/ffmpegX/mencoder' '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder' &&  sudo chmod 755 '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder' && sudo cp '/ffmpegX/mplayer' '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mplayer' && sudo chmod 755 '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mplayer' && cd ~ && sudo /ffmpegX/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf '/ffmpegX/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/mux.tgz' && cd '/Library/Application Support/' && sudo /ffmpegX/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf '/ffmpegX/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gocr.tgz' && cd /usr/local/share && sudo /ffmpegX/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar zxopf

... and a new directory listing of /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX like before. We can see that the modified date on the binaries have changed.



I encoded a short AVI -> MPEG2 then quit ffmpegX. Restarted and got the same missing-components install pop-up window. Strange... I guess it's not that big of a deal really, I can just hit CANCEL every time and it seems to work just just fine...

Hmm... could the space character in the path "/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX" be causing any problems? I recall reading some other posts that mentioned something to the effect that the boot-volume name couldn't have any spaces???

[major]

No, the space is not the cause, perhaps it could be some kind of permission problem, but if the encoding works, it should be not a problem. For a hard-fix you should install a fresh OSX in another volume and install from there.