Comments on: MPlayer OS X and MEncoder binaries

By: Will

Will — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:03:44 +0000

Hi Stef – your versions of mencoder and mencoder-prev appear to be identical

$ mencoder -ovc help MEncoder dev-SVN-r27545-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU 1500 @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14, Stepping: 8) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Available codecs: copy – frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn’t work with filters. frameno – special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS. raw – uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format explicitly. lavc – libavcodec codecs – best quality! vfw – VfW DLLs, read DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html. qtvideo – QuickTime DLLs, currently only SVQ1/3 are supported.

By: derek

derek — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:25:03 +0000

would it be possible to get an update for mencoder to work with OSX 10.5.8?

By: Join avi or other movie files together | Mac Tricks And Tips

Join avi or other movie files together | Mac Tricks And Tips — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:57:08 +0000

[...] from a site called mplayerhq, however we only need the binary for Terminal. To do this head over to stefpause and download the mencoder bianry located at the bottom of the page. When you have downloaded the [...]

By: Stef

Stef — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:50:09 +0000

@Dom – thanks. The problem with offering MacPorts builds, as I mention a few comments up, is that they have external dependencies (other libraries) which mean that anything compiled won’t work as a standalone binary on other machines. Doing a ‘port info mplayer-devel’ shows the following:

Library Dependencies: jpeg, lame, libiconv, libmad, libogg, libpng, libtheora, libvorbis, lzo2, ncurses, zlib, bzip2, liboil

Unfortunately MacPorts doesn’t provide the option to compile the lot into statically-linked binaries, which would roll everything up into a single binary that would work for non-MacPorts users. It does offer the option to generate standard Mac installer packages, though, which will install the required libraries into the appropriate locations. There’s more on this here (see 3.4.2 Binary Packages): http://guide.macports.org/chunked/using.binaries.html

I’d be happy to create and offer up an mplayer-devel (with mencoder) package if anyone needs it, but this way’s not really as clean or advantageous as installing MacPorts and doing it through their system instead.

By: Dom

Dom — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:19:32 +0000

i was looking for a recent mencoder binary to join two .avi files on OSX. i didnt find any, so i compiled it overnight via macports using the mplayer-devel +mencoder_extras variant. so this is snow leopard compatible.

http://leicht.de.vu/files/mencoder.zip (3,8 MB)

maybe someone needs it…

By: Stef

Stef — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:41:01 +0000

Thanks, Tom!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:39:29 +0000

Hi guys,

If some of you are still interested in using a PPC w/tiger binaries, you can find them here

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerosx/files/Last%20Mencoder%20and%20amp_Mplayer%20binary/mencoder%20and%20mplayer/lastbinary200505ONLYFORTIGER.zip/download

Also, if your PPC is not fast enough to do live transcoding, you can use this guy python’s script… Thanks to the authors…

http://giesler.biz/bjoern (his site seems up/down)

By: Mike Carrington

Mike Carrington — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:07:44 +0000

Thanks for the binary, I didn’t want to build it myself :)

By: Stef

Stef — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:44:16 +0000

Hiya Robin. As per my reply to drh, unfortunately the updated ones weren't functioning without additional MacPorts libraries so I'm afraid I've had to switch back to the previous builds, hence the old creation date.

I'm currently struggling with MacPorts, trying to create some new builds that are fully self contained (i.e. 'static'). If all goes well, I'll have them done in the next few days. I'll keep you posted!

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:29:14 +0000

hi stef... i was trying to download your latest mencoder build to use with MKVTools (2.2.5.b1) from Emm Gunn... when i click on the download link i seem to get a file with a creation date of September 7, 2008, 6:49pm... is that correct?

downloading the 'previous' release link seems to give the exact same file.

many thanks! r

By: Stef

Stef — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:04:54 +0000

drh – thanks for letting me know. Seems they're looking for a dynamic library that was compiled along with the rest of it all through MacPorts, which they can't find. I should've tested for this by renaming the /opt/ main MacPorts directory to see if they'd work or not before posting them up – sorry!

I'll switch the downloads back to the older known-working files and see if I can get MacPorts to compile static versions with everything wrapped inside the binaries.

By: drh

drh — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:45:21 +0000

I have an old version of mplayer and mencoder for OSX.

The file sizes are around 16Mb.

I downloaded your compiled versions above but when I try to run them, I get the following error:

dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libfaac.0.dylib

By: Stef

Stef — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:02:26 +0000

Hi Tariq. Hmm, I'm not sure, to be honest. As ffmpegX hasn't been updated for a couple of years, it depends on whether the mencoder & mplayer commandline options that ffmpegX calls have changed or not.

At a guess, they'll probably work fine, but the best way to find out is to try them yourself.

By: Tariq

Tariq — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:15:15 +0000

Are these binaries FFmpegx compatible?

Many thanks

By: Stef

Stef — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:58:44 +0000

Update: New binaries (built on 2009-12-22), including mencoder x264 support (hopefully), and a link to the MPlayer Extended frontend.

I haven't had any luck with PowerPC (PPC) builds, though, I'm afraid. Sorry.

I've kept the previous binaries here, just in case:
http://media.stefpause.com/mplayer_osx/mplayer-prev.zip
http://media.stefpause.com/mplayer_osx/mencoder-prev.zip

Let me know if you have any problems with the new ones.

By: misha

misha — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:32:57 +0000

Thanks!

Seems, tho, mencoder isn’t built with x264. Here’s output of mencoder -ovc help:

By: rich

rich — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:48:22 +0000

mplayer for G3:

go build from sources or DL Tiger release of MPlayerOSX.

Forewarning: G3 WILL NOT SUPPORT HD content. AKA: no x264 support[extremely choppy]

Everthing else plays fine.

By: TheElf

TheElf — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:41:32 +0000

Hi, i compile the mplayer version from macports (http://www.macports.org/) in booth Panther/Tiger

Mplayer version 1.0rc2 Is the fastest version in my G3 900 I can even watch 640x480 x264 videos, and even up 940x520 divx without noticeable frameskip!!

...too bad im not a programmer, im sure is posible to optimize more the compilation to work best in PPC G3/G4 processors

Mencoder works great in G3/Panther/Tiger with macports

The only problem is that the binary made with macports is not portable

sorry my bad english :)

By: lomenoldur

lomenoldur — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:56:06 +0000

Many thanks, both binaries work beautifuly on Mac OS X 10.5.6 i386. You’re a star.

By: Stef

Stef — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:12:24 +0000

@TheElf, Ollie and Adam: sorry for the delay, I've tried compiling this a few times but can't seem to produce a PPC binary (or one for Tiger). I'm getting my old Mac Mini back shortly – lent it to a starving musician – so hopefully that'll have more success, seeing as it's both PPC and Tiger.

@Thomas Glad it helped!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:32:06 +0000

Great job! I’m making a DVD compilation for a chick I’m hanging out with, but have noticed with ffmpegX and mpeg2enc that if you “Decode with QuickTime,” encoding footage with a running time longer than about 30 minutes gets you weird stutter effects in the latter part of the m2v stream. I traced this to QuickTime decoding (Perian at fault, perhaps?), so I instead used mplayer to decode but with the old binary versions. These fixed the stuttering, but still created that annoying green frame at frame 1. Your versions fixed that, so everything works perfectly now! My girl is gonna be thrilled! Thanks!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:25:25 +0000

I agree, i’m killing for a OSX PPC build of mencoder… also the guys at this site seem to need it, too ! http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20

By: Ollie

Ollie — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:42:16 +0000

A Leopard PPC build would also be wonderful!

By: Stef

Stef — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:26:20 +0000

I’m fairly sure my system’ll only build Leopard-compatible binaries, sorry! I’ll investigate and see if I can figure out a way to build for Tiger PPC later today, though.

By: TheElf

TheElf — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:19:36 +0000

Ouch! leopard only binaries… a version for tiger would be perfect, given that users with G3 can not use leopard , and mplayer is the best option for slower processors thanxs!

By: Sid

Sid — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:30:58 +0000

Oh my gosh! I’ve been surfing and testing the results for ages, but only by now I’ve found ur hand made and up-to-date mencoder binaries. Thanks to you I can go on living now…!

By: Stef

Stef — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:11:21 +0000

You’re welcome, glad they’re of use. Thanks for the confirmation that they work, by the way, much appreciated.

By: mhanney

mhanney — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:29:39 +0000

Thanks for making these binaries available. Mencoder works great on my macbook pro 2.33 intel core 2 duo running Mac OS X 10.5.6 Leopard.

By: Stef

Stef — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:31:59 +0000

I’ve reposted the binaries, which should be free of dependencies and work with a standard OS X install. Please let me know if they work for you (or not)! Thanks.

By: Stef

Stef — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:28:52 +0000

Ahh, sorry about that, I’ve been meaning to get around to updating that article and the binaries for ages! (Had trouble getting them working reliably on a second machine so ended up giving up.) I’m currently sailing around Greece so bandwidth’s somewhat tight – on GPRS at the moment – but I’ll see if I can coax something usable out of the MacPorts mplayer/mencoder package. Can’t guarantee anything, but I’ll give it a shot now and see what I can come up with — cheers!