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  1. Patrick Church
    Guest
    Hello! I love this program, paid for it, and have used it on an old beige G3 for quite a while. However I got a new ibook G4 and installed it, with the ffmpegxbinaries archive, and it won't do anything! I hit encode and the dial spins like it's thinking but the processor program with the status bar never comes up. It just sits there. I have unchecked Decode with QT because I don't have Quicktime Pro on this machine, I didn't know if that would make a difference. Anyhow, does this proggie work with 10.3, and what might I be doing wrong. I installed binaries, ran the installer package, copied the Application. Twice. I can't figure out what else I'm doing different or wrong?!

    On a seperate note, on my old machine where it works, when I select a VIDEO_TS folder of my own unencoded DVD video on the hard drive, it says it can't read a DVD or an encrypted VIDEO_TS folder, and to select one from my drive. I'm doing this! What's wrong?! Thanks much for any and all feedback... pc

  2. myamid
    Guest
    Hi,

    From my experience, the "spinning wheel" thing doesn't only happen in Jaguar, but also in 10.2.x.

    It's not a problem though. Usually, if you give it time, the encoding process will start after a while. This happens when you try to transcode a huge file (ie: 400mb+) and there seems to be a lot of "pre-processing" (for lack of a better word) necessary.

  3. The spinning indicator can take some time when big files need to be pre-scanned. This is usually VIDEO_TS, VOB and MPG files. MOV and AVI files are usually very fast to prescan.

    About the location of your VIDEO_TS folders. Move them to a "Movies" folder.

  4. Patrick Church
    Guest
    I should have been more clear about the spinning disk. It spins, and grep and some of the binaries start in the background, but then it stops, and nothing happens. I have let it sit for 10 minutes, with top showing no running processes, but it never starts encoding. If I click encode again, it does nothing. Is this clearer on the problem? Thanks for the info on the VIDEO_TS folder also!

  5. Try to enable the "Open terminal window" option.

  6. Patrick Church
    Guest
    That seemed to work! It's just odd, I guess the switch to Panther was odd. Under Jaguar, the disk stopped spinning and then the ffmpegX Processes window opened. Now, that never opens, but the Terminal window does and reports frame processing. Is this going to change? I liked the little Safari-like progress bar Thanks major!

  7. I think it is an issue with your own install, as the application works perfectly on OSX 10.3.

  8. Patrick Church
    Guest
    I think I have found the problem. Well, i know I have I had greek characters in the name of my hard drive. I had hoped that Panther was up to par with multiple language support, but it seems not. I don't know if it's changes that have to be made to ffmpegX or the binaries in order to support foreign characters in path names. I saw a post about removing and spaces and that got me thinking. The ffmpegX progress app now starts and I don't have to Open Terminal Window. Thanks for your help major!

    On another note, I put my VIDEO_TS folder in my Movies folder, which is recognized on open, it puts mpeg-2 and all the information. However none of the encoders, specifically when going to VCD and using yuvscaler, they don't recognize the /directory input. Is there something more I'm doing wrong?

  9. Correct, VIDEO_TS to VCD is not supported right now. Only mpeg-2 and mpeg-4 encoding accept VIDEO_TS input.

  10. JTn64gba!
    Guest
    10.2.x IS Jaguar.




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