Totally bizarre FFMpegX issue

[markwm]

This one has got me totally baffled. I had a mackbook running FFMpegX fine, I was using it to encode Xvid files into Mpeg1(mpeg2enc). Anyhow, I need to upgrade the hard drive so I installed a clean drive and installed everything from fresh, using the old hard drive as an external to copy my data.

Today I came to re-install FFMpegX, install went ok. I tried to encode one of my usual AVI files into meg1 using the saved preset file I always load to get my settings. This time all my encodes will not play, quicktime just spits an error 'could not open movie'.

So I boot from my old drive externally and try to encode the exact same file with the exact same preset file loaded. It works perfectly. I've checked all the binaries and the versions are the same, I've checked quicktime plugins and they too are identical on both drives(just perian & flip4mac).

Is there anything at all I've missed? same version of FFmpegX, same binaries, same file, same preset file. 2 drives, 2 different results.

Totally baffled as to why one should work and the other shouldn't

[markwm]

I've figured it out, nothing to do with FFmpegx afterall, down to the MPEG2 component in the system quicktime folder. I have no clue why this is needed to play files encoded using mpeg2enc in mpeg1???

[RioCreations]

May I ask where you got the MPEG-2 Component for Quicktime from. I think I may need it too.

[bucho]

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/

[RioCreations]

Hello bucho,

Thanks for the info.

Rio.