Problem with Video_TS to Xvid avi (v.9L)

[yonidass]

I'm having trouble converting a Video_TS folder to an Xvid avi with v.9L. I've installed everything correctly, including the new binaries, and delted old versions and plists but when I hit encode I just see the spinning wheel on the app while it locks up. The progress indicater never launches. I then have to force quit the app and then force quit mencoder with Activity Monitor, otherwise it continues to run in the background without producing any file. I've had the same problem with 2 separate source folders which play fine as DVDs and have no problems using the last version and older binaries with these same folders.

I'm quite familiar with ffmpegx and have encoded to xvid avi before. No idea what the problem is.

[yonidass]

Apparently Major is as baffled by this as I am. I installed 0.9L on an external startup drive (also running 10.3.4) and everything worked fine so something must have gotten screwed up in the installation process and/or is related to previous versions on my main drive. Incidentally, I was able to go back to .9K with no problems.

Can someone at least tell me how to get everything related to ffmpegx off of my system so I can start over?

[major]

The Credits file lists all the file which are installed, though they don't interfere with nothing else, and your issue being probably originated elsewhere.

[dr9553]

I have noticed that it takes a bit of time for ffmpegx .9L to open the progress app, but it eventually does. The program appears to scan the file or something first before it starts encoding.

Donald

[yonidass]

Lo and behold you're right. I apologize for my impatience. The thing that threw me was that when I did get it to work on my external drive, the progress app started fairly soon, after 10 seconds or so. Now it won't come up before a good 10 to 15 minutes of scanning or whatever it does. Not sure why since it was with the same video_ts folder.

The only problem with such a long delay is that it makes the 5 second test clip less convenient.

[major]

The prescanning was there since many versions ago, and though I made it super-fast for all formats, VIDEO_TS is the last remaining format which can take a while to pre-scan.