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How to install FFmpeg on MacOS

Sean Cheren, Wolfram
Posted 4 years ago
POSTED BY: Sean Cheren
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Sean, I noticed that libavdevice.58 is missing in your list of links that need to be created manually! With this addition, your script works with Mathematica 13.0.1 under MacOS x86. Many thanks :)
POSTED BY: Pascal Paillier
John Snyder
John Snyder
Posted 3 years ago
POSTED BY: John Snyder
M Schneider
M Schneider
Posted 3 years ago

Thanks! That also worked on a M1 Mac! It seems some of the calls from Mathematica to FFmpeg are hardcoded and not dynamic, that's unfortunate.

Thank you very much!
POSTED BY: M Schneider
Sean Cheren
Sean Cheren, Wolfram
Posted 3 years ago

Thanks for confirming this workaround! We're working hard to make FFmpeg work as out of the box as possible.
POSTED BY: Sean Cheren
M Schneider
M Schneider
Posted 3 years ago
POSTED BY: M Schneider

In 12.3, there is a nice dialog box that comes up and tells me how to install ffmpeg with MacPorts:

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Clicking the command copies it.

The problem is that it copies the wrong command. The clipboard will contain sudo port install ffmpeg + gpl3 + nonfree, which is incorrect and does not work as intended. There must be no spaces after the + signs. The correct command is sudo port install ffmpeg +gpl3 +nonfree (which is what is displayed, but is not what is copied).
POSTED BY: Szabolcs Horvát
Sean Cheren
Sean Cheren, Wolfram
Posted 4 years ago

/usr/local/Cellar sounds right but I have no idea why it would have put the symlinks in usr/local/opt/ffmpeg. When I tried this on a m1 mac last week arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew install ffmpeg created symlinks in /usr/local/lib like brew usually does. I'd be curious to see what arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew reinstall ffmpeg looked like in terms of install locations in the brew output.
POSTED BY: Sean Cheren
POSTED BY: Christophe Favergeon
Sean Cheren
Sean Cheren, Wolfram
Posted 4 years ago

Thank you so much for confirming this, I just wanted to make sure that the typical arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew install ffmpeg still works as expected.
POSTED BY: Sean Cheren
Sean Cheren
Sean Cheren, Wolfram
Posted 4 years ago

Hi Christophe, was the x86 brew install of ffmpeg installed to /usr/local/lib? what do you get for this? ls -ls /usr/local/lib/libavc*
POSTED BY: Sean Cheren
POSTED BY: Christophe Favergeon
Sean Cheren
Sean Cheren, Wolfram
Posted 4 years ago
POSTED BY: Sean Cheren
POSTED BY: Christophe Favergeon
POSTED BY: Christophe Favergeon
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Sean Cheren
Sean Cheren, Wolfram
Posted 4 years ago

The Windows version of this post can be found here

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POSTED BY: Sean Cheren
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