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ffmpegX 0.0.9y (Mac OS X)

Great program. Shitty instructions.  

Ok. So for everyone who hates this program because you can't get libraries installed here's how you do it. It'll tell you to download some files. Do it. First go to this page: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/MacOS/ and scroll down until you see the file named mpeg2enc.intel under the heading: "Notes for the mjpegtools on MAC OS/X". It'll be one of the last files on the page. So you grabbed that right? Control Click it and click download linked file. Rawk. Done with that. Now there's the second link. The one with the zip file right. (http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mplayerosx/ffmpegXbinaries20060307.zip <-that one) Type that link in exactly and it'll download. Unzip it. You'll now have 2 files. mencoder and mplayer. Wow. Woulda been nice to have them tell you to unzip it instead of just putting that it wants the zip. Try installing the zip. Yeah. It wont work. However, we'll now point that "locate" button to where you just unzipped. Fantastic! Now it works. Close it and open it. No more screen right. But now you get a nag screen asking you to buy it. Seriously? I just spent 2 hours troubleshooting your awesomely terrible instructions and you want me to buy it. No thanks. I'll pass. It seems like it'd be a great piece of software, but the instructions for the binaries was frustrating. And please don't tell me, "Why would you install the zip file?", because well, it's linux and there are programs that use the .tar.gz format for their plugins as the default install method so it only made sense that it would do the same. So hope this helps someone less tech savvy. Again. The instructions for that part sucked. [alert admin]

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Sunday, December 21 2008 @ 01:06 PM PST

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