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Trouble Installing to OS X 10.5 (mencoder, mplayer, mpeg2enc.intel)

gabroll posted 2009 Oct 28 12:28

I 've been trying to install ffmpegX and I can't get past the auto intall of the other components. Here's an image of each file located (right on my desktop) and each time I get this error message. I've also tried installing just one of the 3 components with no luck. Any ideas? Thanks guys! I'm trying to convert some wmvs without having to spend $40+, but if mmpegX doesn't work I think I'll just give in.[/img]

Case posted 2009 Oct 28 13:23

1/ The installer window wants an admin account password. Are you logged in with a user account that has administrator privileges? Does this account have a password? If not, set a user account password in System Preferences > Accounts. (The installer tries to use the sudo command, which requires a non-blank password.) 2/ WMV comes in a wide variety of versions. Not all of them are supported by ffmpeg or mplayer, as decoders of ffmpegX. Most ffmpegX users convert WMV with help from QuickTime and the free Flip4Mac QuickTime Component. ffmpegX can use QuickTime (and thus Flip4Mac) to decode a source file by specifying so in the Options tab. 3/ Videohelp.com has a forum for just ffmpegX.

gabroll posted 2009 Oct 28 15:04

Awesome. Thanks. It's got to be the blank password. I'll end up sorting this out eventually, I just don't have QTPro and didn't want to purchase it just to convert a few files. Thanks again.

redwudz posted 2009 Oct 28 19:45

Probably better asked and answered in our ffmpegX forum. Moving you. And welcome to our forums. :)

Case posted 2009 Oct 29 01:15

gabroll : I just don't have QTPro and didn't want to purchase it just to convert a few files. 1/ ffmpegX doesn't care about the Pro registration of QuickTime. 2/ Exporting from WMV to QuickTime formats with QuickTime Pro won't work with the free Flip4Mac WMV player component. Telestream has a different product (Player Pro) for that. I hope that makes sense...

brucehobbs posted 2009 Nov 04 14:16

I'm stuck at the same point, but with a slightly different error: ##sh: sudo: No such file or directory I'm logged in as an administrator and the account does have a password which I have entered before clicking Install. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Case posted 2009 Nov 04 22:33

brucehobbs : ##sh: sudo: No such file or directory It seems that the shell (the command line environment that ffmpegX uses in the background) can't find sudo. I don't know how that could happen accidentally. It should never happen. In the Terminal, try : which sudo It should return the path where the sudo binary is, if it can be found in: { /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin }. In the Terminal, try : locate /sudo It should return all paths that include "/sudo", which might help if the binary was moved somehow outside its normal directory. If all this doesn't resolve where sudo is, then you might have to try and bring sudo back with Time Machine, Archive & Install or a manual re-install of the OS (or a specific part of the OS (BSD), using Pacifist).

brucehobbs posted 2009 Nov 04 23:37

1) which sudo returns /usr/bin/sudo 2) locate sudo returns that file and 36 others 3) sudo works fine from the command line Thoughts?

Case posted 2009 Nov 05 12:27

Those results indicate that the sudo binary is fine (the right place and in working order). This makes the error "##sh: sudo: No such file or directory" more bizarre. I'll search some more, maybe I'll find other possible reasons for this error message.

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