Installing on a NON-Admin account?

[mamefan]

I've been getting the error "user is not on the sudo list" or something similar when trying to install ffmpegX on several user accounts. From searching this forum it seems my difficulties are due to these accounts not having admin privledges.

Is there a work-around for this? I don't want to give these accounts admin privledges but I'd really like to install this program for my user accounts to be able to use.

Thanks for any ideas!

[DereX888]

It sounds like a Mac problem, so try our Mac forum?

I loathe Macs, but from what you described it seems the solution is same as on linux (and windoze too for that matter):
obviously you need to install it from admin/root/whatever-it-is-called-there account, and for all users.
You don't need to give these accounts admin priviledges, you just need to install it from admin-level account. It'll probably work fine on those restricted accounts (just some of its settings may or may not be accessible outside of admin-level accounts). Hope this helps.

[Case]

If you install ffmpegX (or any app) when logged in as admin, it will be accessable to all users. However, ffmpegX won't function 100% in a non-admin account, in my experience. E.g. my 624x352 23.976 fps XviD/mp3 AVI was recognized as 480x360 29.97 fps H.264 MOV under my test user account, which makes no sense to me, and that also sets a few parameters wrong (size, framerate). But if you compensate for that, it will convert the file just fine.
Maybe major can do something about that for future versions?