MacOS 10.4 - ffmpgeX installation isues

[suesavage]

I an mot able to install ffmpegX successfully. The name of my computer has an apostrophe, but the hard disk named MacHD, does not contain any special characters. I admit I'm not a computer whiz... and don't know how to change the name of the computer, if that is what is causing the issue.

[suesavage]

I am following-up on my posting dated March 21 to see if there is assistance available to resolve the issue I'm having while trying to install ffmpegX.

[rumplestiltskin]

I see you're trying to install version .9k

The latest version is .9x

Perhaps that's your problem.(?)

[tomlee59]

Although I've used .9k on an older PB running 10.2 (because that was the last version that Major said would work on that OS), you may have found that, not only are the newest versions better, the older ones may not actually work at all. Follow Rumplestiltskin's sugestion and install a newer version and see if that works. Unless there's some overriding reason why you *have* to get .9k working, that's what I would recommend.

[suesavage]

I followed your suggestions and was able to complete the install. Thank you!

[suesavage]

Now I am not able to convert a file to a flash video. The file format I am trying to convert is a VIDEO_TS (VTS_01-1.V0B).

This is the information from the error message dialog box:

Encoding started on Wed Mar 28 13:43:45
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
Input #0, mpeg, from '/Desktop/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB':
Duration: 00:00:30.0, start: 0.154256, bitrate: 82762 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s
Stream #0.1[0x1e0], 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 704x480, 4710 kb/s
/Desktop/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP: Unknown format

Any suggestions?

[rumplestiltskin]

The ".BUP" is a "backup" of some part of the structure (IIRC). It's not a VOB.

I'm out of suggestions; others will, no doubt, help.

[major]

VIDEO_TS to FLV is not supported. Extract first as a single VOB file with MacTheRipper (Title/Chapter mode), then do VOB > FLV.

[suesavage]

Thank you for your help. I have down-loaded MacTheRipper and it crashes when I try to do either a Title/Chapter or Full-Disk extraction from this dvd. I tested doing extractions with other dvds and did not receive errors. The error report is showing the following:

Command: MacTheRipper
Path: /Volumes/MacTheRipper/MacTheRipper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacTheRipper
Parent: WindowServer [57]
Version: 2.6.6 (2.6.6)
PID: 262
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x0053f000

[RioCreations]

Hi suesavage,

You may want to try MacTheRipper 3 instead.

Rio.