ffmpegx autocrop and preview not working anymore

[skankmonky18]

Hey all,

Hope someone can answer my question. My ffmpegx was working fine until I had to reinstall my OS, but now after downloading and reinstalling the binaries the autocrop feature and preview mode don't seem to work. Whenever I try to use the autocrop feature a window comes up that says this:

"FIXME:Hardenabling SSE and SSE2 without detection
parse error at line 1"

Does anyone know what this means? and if so how I can remedy this? I'm using ffmpegX 0.0.9x r2, and I've been reinstalling and redownloading like mad, but to no avail.

Also, now when I open my .mpg and .vob files in ffmpegx, it tells me there are no video/audio tracks, even though there obviously are.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Case]

"FIXME:Hardenabling SSE and SSE2 without detection

This may be normal, as it is the way that the binaries are compiled. I think SSE and SSE2 are available on all Intel Macs, so that shouldn't be a problem.

parse error at line 1"

What you're trying to do, isn't understood by the program. Likely unrelated to the previous line.

I would think something is wrong with your installation. So check the requirements:
1/ Are you logged in as administrator?
2/ Is ffmpegX in your /Applications folder?
3/ Are spaces and special characters absent from all disk names, folder names, and filenames that ffmpegX may use?
4/ Are the binaries copied (by the installer) to /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/ ?

[skankmonky18]

Unfortunately, all those things are answered "Yes".

I may be completely wrong on this, but I feel like its the mplayer that may be messed up, b/c I can't preview any clips (using the preview function in the filters tab), the Play button next to the source doesn't work, and when I drop certain files in (.vob, .mpg) it doesn't seem to read the source info correctly, these are all things that mplayer does, yes?

The weird thing is that it will still encode the video (.vob, etc.) I just can't use the preview/autocrop to see what I'm doing beforehand, which is why I think its the mplayer that just isn't working.

Thanks for the quick response, and hopefully this is something easy to remedy.

[Case]

Did you try other movies files, to see it mplayer will play those with the Play button? Any playing movie would validate mplayer.

Check to see if mplayer is identified by the system as a Unix Executable File.

Also check the permissions on the binary in Terminal, if you will:

Computername:~ username$ cd /Library/Application\ Support/ffmpegX/
Computername:/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX username$ ls -l
...
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin  15869784 Apr 30  2006 mplayer
...

A working mplayer shows "-rwxr-xr-x" on permissions on my system.

[skankmonky18]

Upon trying other movie files, none of them will work, nothing occurs when I push the play button. I've tried .avi, .mp4, .mpg, .vob. Mplayer is a 'Unix Executable File (Universal)' when I get info on it, and in the terminal it also says that my permissions are correct:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin  15869784 Aug 20 20:56 mplayer

So I'm at a loss as to what to do at this point, since uninstalling and installing haven't helped any, I feel like I need something else installed additionally, but who knows.

Thanks for the help so far.

[Case]

Try this in Terminal:
Drag-and-drop mplayer to the Terminal window, next drag-and-drop a movie-file to the Terminal window. Press Enter. If mplayer starts playing, then the problem lies with ffmpegX, not mplayer. ('q' for quit.)

Maybe ffmpegX itself has some error in it, and the binaries are fine. Did you try a 'fresh' download of the main app, or just the binaries?

Maybe, when re-installing the OS, you skipped some option that ffmpegX expects to be there. Something related to AppleScript or Unix or something. Just a guess, I don't know what else it could be.

[skankmonky18]

OK, I just tried that, and mplayer didn't play the movie, this is what I got in the terminal:

MPlayer dev-CVS-060307-04:23-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
CPU: Intel  (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
FIXME:Hardenabling SSE and SSE2 without detection
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2


parse error at line 1

Looks like the same thing that ffmpegx was giving me in the first place.

I've downloaded and reinstalled ffmpegx and the binaries each a number of times. I'm using the binary location that ffmpegx tells me to use in the "install binaries" window that shows. Its a possiblity that I might have overlooked something when reinstalling, I can go back to the install disk and give it a look, but for now, above is what the terminal gave me.