After banging my head in the wall for 2 hours after finding out what complete, utter, nonsensical, idiocy the design choice of REQUIRING administrator access to install ffmpegX's additional binaries (mencoder, mplayer, mpeg2enc) was, I have now calmed down enough to come here and ask - what location is ffmpegX trying to read these binaries from?
Also, do the "developers" of ffmpegX read this forum? If you do, why on earth have you taken this sick, twisted, pointless path of design, instead of letting the user specify a location of where to look for these binaries?
There is absolutely _no point what so ever_ for your design choice, it only impairs the users.
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The binaries installer asks you to point to your downloaded files. After pressing the Install button, these files are copied to /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/, where they will be looked for at next launch. During this copy process they are also configured to be executable from the GUI.
One needs admin privs to copy files there.
I'm pretty sure this Application Support directory is what the developers of Mac OS X wanted 3rd party developers to use for helper files and such.
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Originally Posted by Case
Also, many thanks for the info about the location of the files.
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I agree, the users library would be a better place.
I'm running into a related problem. I select the three binaries, enter the pw and Install. It copies the binaries. Next time I run ffmpegX it can't find them again. I have checked, they are in the folder you specify. But it goes to install every time I launch.
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Originally Posted by typo
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i'm having the same thingy. i have a very, very old version of the binaries. must have downloaded it 3-4 years ago. i thought the reason it always asks for the binaries is because the version i have is not updated. i've been trying to re-download the binaries for the longest time but the site is down EVERYTIME i try. and yet i've never heard complains from anybody that the site is down.
can anybody clear up this issue please? i'm getting very confused. and if anybody has the updated version of the binaries, please, please, can you send it to me???? or maybe upload it somewhere.
last thing:
the reallibs for encoding RealVideo is not here
http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/?category=helixdnaclient
WHERE ON EARTH CAN I FIND THEM???!!! :[
anybody, please????
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I had the same problem. Installing, re-installing and still, everytime I launched the application, it asked for the darn binaries. I downloaded the binaries again, but now to my desktop (instead of to my download folder) and LEFT THEM ON MY DESKTOP. Then I re-installed ffmpegX, directed it to the binaries ON MY DESKTOP and that was it. The stuff was placed in the right folders somewhere in my library (am too lazy to go and look where exactly) and disappeared from my desktop (although, I believe that one item remained, which I just threw away then) and ffmpegX never complained again about not being able to find the binaries. So, downloading it to my desktop and leaving it there was the trick that did it for me.
edit: corrected a typing error.
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