What's up with ffmpegx (current and 1.0.0)

[TryNiX]

Hello all!!

I was wondering whats happening with ffmpegx

I mean the latest ffmpegx update was on January 2008, that's quite a while!

Is the project still goin on?? I would really be sad if it is to be stopped

[joshmunkey]

Well, considering that Major, the application creator, hasn't been on the forum since February of 2008... no, I would consider it buried. Thankfully with the advent of Intel Macs we fortunate upgraders have been able to seamlessly use a wide array of capable windows apps to fill our encoding needs. Once PPC machines meet their total end in the coming years and all Apple users can go to the windows side via VMWare to fix their encoding issues, ffmpegx dying out won't seem that big of a deal.

[rumplestiltskin]

I haven't yet found a need to go to the Dark Side to do any encoding. Just drop Perian (and maybe Flip4Mac) into your system and use any of the following:

MPEG Streamclip
Handbrake
QT Pro
and at least a dozen others.

[garymm]

all Apple users can go to the windows side via VMWare to fix their encoding issues, ffmpegx dying out won't seem that big of a deal.

Buying and installing a whole separate OS just for one or two tasks seems like a big deal to me.

The underlying ffmpeg and mplayer projects are still ongoing, so hopefully someone will continue major's work and write a mac os gui for it.

[Flarch]

I went to the dark side briefly, and well... indeed it was pretty darned dark. I may visit from time to time, if there's a grand game or something that doesn't show for OS X, but i'm not going there to encode video or any other real tasks.

I've always found using windoze almost as fun as going to the dentist.

If not ffmpegX, i hope some other do-it-all video tool shows up for Mac! Right now it takes too many apps, guesses, and wrong turnes to get a job done.

[cryingraven]

I downloaded and installed the latest ffmpeg a couple of days ago. I was pleased to find that it has support for TRUE HD since I only recently discovered the format and thought it was STEREO until I found out I had to shell out 9 grand on a new hi-fi to be able to play it. Now that the money is spent, having a tool that can use it is awesome... except I can't use it at all...

When I use -vcodec h264 or x264 or even mp4 or mpeg4 I always get the same error : "unknown encoder"

I am unable to convert ANYTHING to ANYTHING using ffmpeg and have to resort to ffmpegx as per usual.

I extracted an x264 file from a m2ts file from a blu-ray rip and lo and behold NOTHING I own would read that file. Not VLC, not QTPro, not VideoConverter ( MP4 Converter), not even my windows avidemux running under Crossover... nothing... except ffmpegx...

Sorry, guys, there is nobetter tool available for mac! The greatest tools in my arsenal is ffmpegx for compression and TSMuxer for joining and splitting the files with surround audio. Avidemux comes in handy for when the video has excessive b-frames and ffmpegx fails to encode it into a working file. VLC is great for previewing video being encoded. QTPro is my extaction tool for DTS as it can convert it to AIF and then I use VLC to convert THAT into AC3.

It would be great to just use ffmpeg, but it doesn't want to work...

My current video file is standing at 872% complete and has been running for just under 14 hours now on my Core Duo 2.4 with 3G ram...
It usally takes it around 16 hours to compress a 32G file into a sub 6G file but with the percentage so completely out of whack it is hard to know when it will finish off... a Way to make ffmpeg work or a new version of ffmpegx would be awesome...

(and before you ask, yes, I installed ALL optional libs AND their Optional libs etc etc) using PORT so YES, it IS installed, it is just full if cr*p when it gets to working...