can I uninstall the 'engines'?

[snoogly9]

Since installing the 'engines' and running ffmpegx I can no longer launch (they just quit) any of my other dvd related apps - 42, iripdvd, dvdbackup etc.

Have the 'engines' somehow screwed up my OS???

Help!!! Can I uninstall them?

[major]

No, it's impossible that your OS or other apps are affected by installing ffmpegX engines.

[snoogly9]

Thanks Major.....

[cluth]

I hate to contradict the author of the program, but I wouldn't say impossible.

I would say, though, highly unlikely.

All the engines are are command-line executable files (basically Unix applications). The only way they would possibly affect another program is if that program had previously installed the same "app" in the same location, and Major's installer overwrote them.

I'm not familiar with the programs you listed, but I doubt they use raw Unix executables. In the true Unix world (I'm not an expert, but I've gathered a lot of info over the last few years), the system itself is rarely modified -- all extras are extraneous programs and daemons and things like that. It's highly unlikely that the "engines" are responsible for any damage to your programs.

Try this: reinstall your other programs. If they used any executable files that may have been overwritten, those programs' installers will overwrite Major's installation job and they should work. If they don't, the problem is somewhere else.

To uninstall them, go to the terminal, type "locate mpeg2enc" or "locate mplayer" or "locate mencoder" (or whatever the programs are that his installer installed -- I forget) and type "rm [the path to that program]". They should all be in /usr/bin.

If the previous paragraph means nothing to you, don't attempt anything or you may screw up your computer. Ask your neighborhood Unix guru.

Hope this helps... I know nothing about video codecs and only a tiny, tiny little bit about the command line...

Chris